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
March 12, 2020
The celebrated writer Elizabeth Spencer passed away late last year at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She authored nine novels, many short stories, and a memoir widely seen… READ MORE
March 11, 2020
By John Maxwell Hamilton and Kevin R. Kosar (Excerpted from a piece that originally ran in Politico; click here for the full-length article) Most Americans associate propaganda with totalitarian regimes,… READ MORE
February 18, 2020
by Delia Croessmann With painstaking accuracy, Dr. Trent Brown tells a compelling story of true crime that reveals the consequences of socioeconomic injustice in the South in his new book,… READ MORE