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
September 13, 2019
Sam V. H. Reese is an acclaimed teacher and writer—his first book on mid-century fiction won the 2018 Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize —but, like all of us, he… READ MORE
October 30, 2014
Join us tonight, 30 October, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM, for a music-themed book festival to kick off the Louisiana Festival of Books. LSU Press authors Barbara Barnes Sims… READ MORE
June 20, 2007
"No one is really sure what [New Orleans’s] first "cornet king," Charles (Buddy) Bolden, sounded like 100 years ago, much less what made him tick," writes MICHAEL CIEPLY recently in… READ MORE
May 15, 2007
Bobby Braddock, the award-winning country songwriter behind tunes including "He Stopped Loving Her today," "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," and "I Wanna Talk About Me," and the author of a new memoir, Down in… 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
