February 21, 2007
On July 1, LSU Press author Drew Gilpin Faust will become the first woman president of Harvard University. The former professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976-2000… READ MORE
February 15, 2007
From now until May 13, the traveling exhibit "Vanishing Wetlands: Two Views," showcasing images from the book Marsh Mission: Capturing the Vanishing Wetlands, by photographer C C Lockwood and artist… READ MORE
February 6, 2007
Louisiana State University Press poet Jane Gentry has been named Kentucky’s next Poet Laureate. She will be inducted in a ceremony on April 20 at the Kentucky State Capital. In… READ MORE
January 30, 2007
The Animal Girl: Stories, by John Fulton, has been selected as the third title in LSU Press’s Yellow Shoe Fiction Series. To be published this fall, the stories in The… READ MORE
Louisiana State University Press poet John H. Stone will be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame this spring at the University of Georgia in Athens. In 2000, the… READ MORE
During the months of January and February, south Louisiana is alive with the spirit of carnival. For those of you who are partaking in the local festivities or just wishing… READ MORE
November 15, 2006
Upon the death of three New Orleans Jazz legends—Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen, Harold Dejan, and Milton Batiste—Mick Burns (1942-2007), a jazz musician and author of Keeping the Beat on the… READ MORE
Louisiana State University Press author Charles Hannon, Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture, has won the C. Hugh Holman Award, given by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature… READ MORE