--- title: Wendell Pierce's Book Cover for "The Wind in the Reeds" Revealed description: The actor writes about rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina canonical: https://time.com/3902049/wendell-pierce-book-cover/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-01T16:28:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:16.692Z article:section: Ideas og:title: "The Wire" Star Wendell Pierce Reveals New Book Cover og:description: The actor writes about rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina og:url: https://time.com/3902049/wendell-pierce-book-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: "The Wire" Star Wendell Pierce Reveals New Book Cover twitter:description: The actor writes about rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Exclusive: _The Wire_ Star Wendell Pierce Reveals New Book Cover > Sponsored content. 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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent. by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 1, 2015 4:28 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 1, 2015 4:28 PM UTC Audiences may know Wendell Pierce from the HBO shows _The Wire_, on which he played Detective Bunk Moreland, and _Treme,_ on which he played New Orleans trombonist Antoine Batiste. The actor is no stranger to NOLA — he grew up in the Pontchartrain Park neighborhood, which was decimated when Hurricane Katrina struck 10 years ago. Though he has homes in New York and L.A., he spent time at his parents’ house both before and after the flood and helped them rebuild after it was ruined. Now Pierce has written a memoir about his experience in the wake of the storm, [_The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594633231/?tag=timecom-20). Pierce revealed the first look at the cover for TIME:  Riverhead Books The book will detail how Pierce dedicated himself to the task of helping his family and the neighborhood put their homes back together. He tells of putting on and starring in a production of Samuel Beckett’s _Waiting for Godot_ in two of the hardest-hit regions of the city, reflecting on his belief in art’s “power to transform us and the world.” _The Wind in the Reeds_ comes out Sept. 8. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3902049/wendell-pierce-book-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3902049/wendell-pierce-book-cover/"},"headline":"Exclusive: The Wire Star Wendell Pierce Reveals New Book Cover","datePublished":"2015-06-01T16:28:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:16.692Z","description":"The actor writes about rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina","url":"https://time.com/3902049/wendell-pierce-book-cover/","keywords":["Books","hurricane katrina"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3902049/wendell-pierce-book-cover/","name":"Exclusive: The Wire Star Wendell Pierce Reveals New Book Cover"}}]}] ```