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 LouisianaCongratulations 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.
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 LSU Press Pulitzer Prize winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces was named as one of the 50 Best Cult Books by British newspaper, Telegraph. Click here to view the entire list.
Just in time for April’s observance of National Poetry Month, LSU Press author Danny Heitman has published an op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor arguing for the continued importance of poetry. “While I’m not a poet myself, I’ve really deepened my appreciation for poetry over the years by reading the exceptional, Pulitzer Prize-winning line of poetry published by LSU Press, and that, in no small part, is why I try to promote poetry through national commentaries such as this one,” Heitman said of the op-ed. Readers can check out the piece here.
Although Heitman isn’t a poet, his new LSU Press title, A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House, has been hailed for its poetic sensibility. Nationally renowned historian Neil Baldwin praised the book as “satisfying and artful: local history as poetic metaphor.”
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.
The San Diego Union-Tribune has a great review of David Kirby's The House on Boulevard St., proclaiming, "Kirby is exuberant, irrepressible, manical and remarkably entertaining. . . . If you want to see how lively and personable American poetry can be, read The House on Boulevard St." You can read the entire article here.
LSU's "Pistol Pete" Maravich topped The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun's recently published list of the 75 best SEC basketball players. Sportswriters from around the South helped to pick the list, which marks the conference's 75th anniversary.
This month, LSU Press is publishing Shooting The Pistol: Courtside Photos of Pete Maravich at LSU the most complete photographic record of Maravich’s playing days at LSU.
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id Kirby has been awarded the Gold Medal in Poetry from the Florida Book Awards for his book The House on Boulevard St. The Florida Book Awards is an annual awards program that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous year.
LSU Press author Danny Heitman recently published an op-ed piece in The Christian Science Monitor about declining interest in nature. In a related audio interview on The Monitor’s web site, Danny discusses A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House, which LSU Press will release on April 1. Read the entire article and listen to the interview here.
