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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...

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Heitman’s bird book garners a lot of attention

Danny Heitman’s A Summer of Birds is garnering a lot of attention. Read the recent reviews in Living Bird magazine and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Also be sure to catch Danny on Channel 2 / WBRZ’s...

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Early Praise for Boone Biography

In a July 28 review, Publishers Weekly declared Meredith Mason Brown’s Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Sept.) to be “the most readable and balanced” as well as “the most complete...

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At Home In Tennessee gets a rave review

At Home in Tennessee, by Donna Dorian with photographs by Anne Hall, received a great review from The Magazine Antiques.  The review praises the book's "wonderfully diverse sampling of American...

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Journalism’s Roving Eye gets great review

The new definitive history of American foreign reporting, Journalism's Roving Eye by John Maxwell Hamilton, has been reviewed in The California Literary Review. Click here to read the review.

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Oertel’s Bleeding Borders reviewed in the JFP

Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel's first book, Bleeding Borders: Race Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas, was recently reviewed in the Jackson Free Press.  Read the review here.

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Styron’s Letters to My Father reviewed

William Styron's Letters to My Father has recently been reviewed in the Washington Post. Click here to read the reivew.

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We Were Merchants reviewed in WSJ

Hans Sternberg's new book, We Were Merchants, recently received an excellent review in the Wall Street Journal.  Read the review by clicking the link below. Hospitality Department (Wall Street Journal)

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Betty Adcock reviewed and interviewed

Betty Adcock's most recent collection of poetry, Slantwise, was recently reviewed by the online journal Cerise Press.  Ms. Adcock also gave a wonderful interview in which she discusses her craft.  You...

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H-France review of Murder in the Metro

“…an engaging study which draws the reader in with the murder mystery, while making an important argument about the perils of French politics in the 1930s.” Read the full review [PDF]

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December Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

December is always a special time of the year. Here’s some news from LSU Press last month. Visitations by Lee Upton was named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of December. Books by Brannon...

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January Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

January was another fantastic month here at LSU Press! We have lots of exciting news, and want to share it with you. On to Petersburg by Gordon C. Rhea was announced as a finalist for the 2018 Gilder...

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February Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

What an incredible month we have had at LSU Press! The Cemeteries of New Orleans by Peter B. Dedek was given an honorable mention in the Louisiana Literary Awards. Hood’s Texas Brigade by Susannah...

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March Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

As we gear up for National Poetry Month, we wanted to share some good news from March! Civil War Logistics By Earl J. Hess was selected as the winner of the 2017 NYMAS Eugene Feit Award in Civil War...

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April Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

As National Poetry Month winds down, we wanted to share some great news from the past four weeks. Steven Sodergren’s The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns won the Colby Award...

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May Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

May has been a whirlwind of great news for LSU Press! Andrew F. Lang’s In the Wake of War won the Tom Watson Brown Book Award from the Society of Civil War Historians! And Neon Visions: The Comics of...

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June Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

As we settle into summer, we wanted to share some recent news and publicity from LSU Press! Freedom’s Dance is heating up with a New Orleans summer event lineup that you won’t want to miss. Signings...

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July Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

July marked a significant transition at the Press with the retirement of former director, MaryKatherine Callaway. As we surge into a new, exciting era of scholarly publishing at LSU, we wanted to share...

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August Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

The beginning of Fall semester always brings a flurry of exciting news and publicity. This month, Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost by Michael Patrick Cullinane won the Theodore Roosevelt Association Book...

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September Roundup: News, Events, Reviews

Fall always brings a flurry of exciting news and publicity. This month, Pistols and Politics by Samuel C. Hyde won the 2018 Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical Association!...

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