September 10, 2024
By Barbara Drake-Vera In this post, Barbara Drake-Vera describes finding new words to articulate grief and sorrow. Readers often ask me questions about Andean culture and disappearing glaciers at author… READ MORE
December 23, 2020
Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women, a new book by Julia Nitz, analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from… READ MORE
October 14, 2020
Politicking While Female: The Political Lives of Women, a new collection of essays edited by Nichole M. Bauer, seeks to answer questions about why women have historically faced many more… READ MORE
September 16, 2020
A few years ago, Amber Roessner’s research seemed to take a sharp turn. Having written a successful book on baseball greats like Ty Cobb, she turned her attention to a… READ MORE
July 30, 2020
Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett encourages readers and critics to think more deeply about how they position themselves in and engage with the world around… READ MORE
July 6, 2020
Gene Tomko’s Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians: Jazz, Blues, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, Swamp Pop, and Gospel is the culmination of years of exhaustive research. Here, he shares some of the research that did… READ MORE
June 10, 2020
Michał Choiński’s latest book, Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, melds an innovative use of rhetorical theory with fine-grained analysis of literary texts. Here, he talks about stylometry, a form… READ MORE
May 8, 2020
Keith Clark’s latest book, Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers, appeared in the midst of the drastic upheavals brought on by the coronavirus. Here, he… READ MORE
April 2, 2020
When I celebrated my first anniversary as director of LSU Press on March 4, little did I foresee that less than a month later all Press staff would be working… READ MORE
March 26, 2020
Laura Davenport’s latest collection of poetry has been a long time in the making. In this blog post, she talks about the poets that helped her find her own voice…. READ MORE