LSU Press at the Louisiana Book Festival
October 27, 2017
Don’t forget to come downtown for the 2017 Louisiana Book Festival! Below is a guide to panels featuring LSU Press Authors. 10:45 – 11:30 Reptiles and Ampibians of Louisiana with… READ MORE
Year: 2017
Writing Hood’s Texas Brigade: Books on Civil War Soldiers and Families
October 20, 2017
Over the last fifteen years, historians have increased their focus on the indelible link between Civil War military units and their families and home communities. This connection played a defining… READ MORE
Writing Girl after Girl after Girl: Women Poets, Permission and Risk
October 13, 2017
The poet Lucille Clifton once said that with her poetry, “I hope to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” When I wrote the poems in my new book Girl… READ MORE
Six Cookbooks that Capture Louisiana’s Unique Flavor
October 6, 2017
There’s a cornucopia of Louisiana cookbooks out there. Some, like The Fonville Winans Cookbook, the one I co-authored with Melinda Winans, not only have good recipes, but they give the cook an… READ MORE
September Roundup: News, Events, Reviews
October 2, 2017
September was quite a month here at LSU Press! Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890—1940 by Shawn Salvant won 2016 C. Hugh Holman Award; Galaxie Wagon: Poems by Darnell… READ MORE
Sexuality and the South: Recommended Reading
September 29, 2017
Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture is a collection of twelve essays that seeks to show how fundamentally questions of sexuality have shaped recent southern history. I decided to put… READ MORE
A Budding Gardener’s Library
September 22, 2017
Gardening is dear to my heart and I practice constantly—growing vegetables in the children’s garden at the LSU AgCenter Botanic Garden, conducting vegetable trials across the state and playing in… READ MORE
Eight Works of Fiction That Make the Impossible Appear Possible
September 15, 2017
Writing fiction is impossible: that was my earliest impression, and in some ways that impression has remained with me. How is it possible to make a world on paper or… READ MORE
Event: Why Are We Still Fighting the Civil War? A Conversation
August 23, 2017
3 Things I Learned from The Photojournalism of Del Hall
February 20, 2017
One of the pleasures of working for a university press is the perpetual discovery of pockets of knowledge that I never knew existed before. The Photojournalism of Del Hall is… READ MORE