LSU Press Blog

Mary Ann Sternberg wins Greater Baton Rouge Sisterhood award

Ernest Gaines and LSU author Mary Ann Sternberg were recently named as this year's winners of the Greater Baton Rouge Brotherhood and Sisterhood Award.  The award is sponsored by 100 Black Men of Baton Rouge and is awarded to 2 members of the community who promote justice and harmony.  The ceremony will be held at the Baton Rouge Holiday Inn Select on August 7th. 

Ms. Sternberg is the author of Along The River Road and Winding Through Time.

Ron Slate talks Poetry on the NBCC blog

Ron Slate writes about Reginald Gibbons new poetry collection, Creatures of a Day, on the National Book Critics blog. Read it here.

Claudia Emerson discusses "Late Wife"

Divorce360.com, an Internet community which deals with the issues surrounding divorce, recently interviewed LSU Press author Claudia Emerson about her Pulitzer Prize winning book, Late Wife.  Click here to read the entire article.

Author Events

MAY

• Danny Brown- Shooting the Pistol - LSU Union Bookstore (Baton Rouge) - May 16th, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Mark E. Martin - Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge - LSU Union Bookstore (Baton Rouge, LA) - May 16th, 2-4 p.m.
• Danny Heitman - A Summer of Birds - Baton Rouge Gallery (Baton Rouge, LA) - May 18th, 4 p.m.

JUNE

• Danny Brown- Shooting the Pistol - Windows, a bookshop (Monroe, LA) - June 6th, 5 p.m.
• Mark E. Martin - Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge - Barnes and Noble (Baton Rouge, LA at Corporate Woods) - June 7th, 2-4 p.m.
• Mark E. Martin - Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge - Old Governor's Mansion (Baton Rouge, LA) - June 8th, 3 p.m. Presented by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana

SEPTEMBER

• Floyd Skloot - The Snow's Music - Powell's Books (Portland, OR) - September 28, 7:30 p.m.

LSU Press author Larry Powell elected as SAH Fellow

Congratulations to LSU Press author Lawrence N. Powell, who was recently elected as a Fellow of the Society of American Historians.  Fellows are chosen in recognition of the literary and scholarly distinction of their historical writing.   LSU Press recently published The New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The 1887 Census Office Report, edited with an introduction by Mr. Powell.