Great article about James Lee Burke
April 19, 2010
"LSU Press resurrected my career," says James Lee Burke. LSU Press published his first book in 13 years with the 1985 short story collection, The Convict. A year later, after… READ MORE
April 19, 2010
"LSU Press resurrected my career," says James Lee Burke. LSU Press published his first book in 13 years with the 1985 short story collection, The Convict. A year later, after… READ MORE
Ignatius, the iconic character from A Confederacy of Dunces, turns 30 this year. The book was first published by LSU Press in 1980 and went on to win the Pulitzer… READ MORE
April 16, 2010
Given the recent budget cuts to higher education, people often ask what they can do to help support LSU Press. The answer is really quite simple: just buy an LSU… READ MORE
Congratulations to Eleanor Ross Taylor, author Captive Voices, for winning the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry! The annual prize is sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. Christian Wiman, editor of… READ MORE
Congratulations to Trudier Harris, author of The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South, for winning the College Language Association's Creative Scholarship Award for 2010!
March 29, 2010
HBO will begin airing a new drama, Treme, on April 11th. The show is filmed and set in New Orleans and follows the lives of struggling musicians who try to… READ MORE
March 23, 2010
Eleanor Ross Taylor has won the 2010 William Carlos Williams Book Award sponsored by the Poetry Society of America for her latest book, Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems 1960-2008…. READ MORE
March 4, 2010
Ron Smith, author of Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005, was interviewed recently by Poetry Daily about his involvement with Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Click below to read the entire… READ MORE
March 2, 2010
Barry Hannah passed away yesterday at his home in Oxford, Mississippi at the age of 67. He was the author of several novels and story collections including Geronimo Rex, which… READ MORE
February 26, 2010
The Times-Picayune is reporting today that former New Orleans police supervisor has pled guilty to federal obstruction for his part in the cover-up of the police shooting of 6 unarmed… READ MORE