It contains some of the same characters in Louisiana Power and Light, although in an interview with writer Max Ruback, which appeared in the Winter 2001 issue of the literary magazine Turnrow, Dufresne has said that he does not consider Deep in the Shade of Paradise to be a sequel.
Plume, an imprint of Dutton-Signet, a division of Penguin Books, republished The Way that Water Enters Stone as a trade paperback in 1997, but would later be out of print.
Plume has also published still-in-print trade paperback editions of Louisiana Power and Light (in 1995),[12] Love Warps the Mind A Little (in 1998) and Deep in the Shade of Paradise (in 2003).
In 1998, Dufresne collaborated with Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard and nine other South Florida writers on Naked Came the Manatee, a detective novel published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House.
[14] In the summer of 2007, Grand Valley State University produced the film To Live and Die In Dixie, with a screenplay by Dufresne.