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The News & Observer spotlights Yellow Shoe Fiction

The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) recently ran a great feature on LSU Press and its Yellow Shoe Fiction series.  Click here to read the full article.

Pollack Wins Phoenix Award

The Eudora Welty Society has announced Harriet Pollack is the 2008 recipient of the Phoenix Award. This is an award given on occasion to an individual whose contributions to Welty Studies has been exceptional. Pollack is recognized by the Society as "a major shaping voice in all things Weltean" for two important edited collections of essays, including Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? co-edited by Suzanne Marrs. Pollack is also the co-editor of the upcoming book Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination to be published by LSU Press in January 2008.

Oprah Book Club Author McCarthy Explored in New Book

This week, Oprah chose Cormac McCarthy’s The Road for her immensely popular book club. Check out CNN's recent feature for the scoop.

Gary M. Ciuba, professor of English at Kent State University, has recently published a groundbreaking study of McCarthy and several other celebrated southern authors titled Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy. In his book, Ciuba explores the roots of violence in southern culture by analyzing protagonist Lester Ballard in McCarthy’s Child of God. Desire, Violence, and Divinity would make the perfect compendium piece for those readers interested in delving deeper into the raw emotions that permeate McCarthy’s fiction.

Hannon Wins Southern Literary Studies Prize

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 for the best book of literary scholarship or literary criticism in the field of Southern literature published during the calendar year.

A certificate and a small honorarium was officially presented at the SSSL’s session at the MLA convention in Philadelphia in December.

Professor Anthony Sczcesiul, chair of this year’s committee, commented that “Hannon’s deep historical knowledge thickens the context for our understanding of the author and his world, while his close textual analysis, with readings often hinging on Faulkner’s revisionary processes—opens up the texts in exciting and often surprising ways.”

The Holman award was established in 1985. LSU Press’s The History of Southern Literature won the inaugural award. With a total of six awards, LSU Press has published more Holman award winners than any other publisher.