Shooting The Pistol:
Courtside Photos of Pete Maravich at LSU
A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House
Molly The Pony: A True Story
Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks
Stalking The Ghostbird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in LouisianaDivorce360.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.
Sports Review Magazine recently reviewed Shooting The Pistol: Courtside Photos of Pete Maravich at LSU. Click here to read the full review.
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.
The Kansas City Star includes Danny Heitman's A Summer of Birds in its list of recommended titles from "the kind of presses who get it all done with perhaps a dozen people instead of hundreds." Read the article here.
LSU Press poet David Kirby's new collection of poems, The House on Boulevard St. was featured May 8th on Nancy Pearl's Under The Radar books segment during NPR's Morning Edition. Pearl describes Kirby's poetic style as "conversational, more or less stream of consciousness. . . . The poems, filled with specific details, invite readers into often complicated and convoluted stories, and you can never predict from the opening lines just where the poem is going to end up. For anyone who feels baffled and/or put off by poetry, Kirby's the man to change your mind. " To read the entire review, click here.
Miller Williams's Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It, was featured in the Los Angeles Times and praised for his ability to convey how poetry is necessary to the human spirit. Williams, professor emeritus of English at the University of Arkansas and poet for Bill Clinton's second presidential inauguration, is also the father of singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.
The Wall Street Journal recently reviwed Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War by Louis Mazzari, calling it "an engaging account of this indefatigable do-gooder, capturing along the way a lot of period detail about the South and about the social world that Raper was investigating." Mazzari's is the first biography of on influential southern sociologist who advocated racial justice in an effort to modernize the South.
