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Saturday, December 08, 2018
U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith will visit Louisiana Dec. 14-15 as the fourth and final state included in her fall tour, “American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities,” according to an announcement from the Louisiana Center for…
Monday, December 03, 2018
The epic story of “I’m Leaving It Up to You,” the Dale & Grace hit that reached No. 1 in 1963, fills nearly 50 pages of S.J. Montalbano’s new book, “I’m Leaving It Up to Me.”
Saturday, December 01, 2018
"Being Loved and Loving" by Betty Cicero Robert
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Baton Rouge Pride hopes interest in first Drag Queen Story Time leads to more family-friendly events
It took less than 72 hours for 250 spots to fill up at Baton Rouge Pride's Drag Queen Story Time.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Frank Guidry had always been the right guy for the right job, the fixer who wiped away all evidence. But even a clean crime scene couldn't clear Guidry this time around.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
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Saturday, November 17, 2018
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Saturday, November 10, 2018
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Friday, November 09, 2018
“I accidentally wrote this book on hope,” best-selling author Anne Lamott told the audience.
Monday, November 05, 2018
Love of place is a passion as strong as any other. For writer Sheryl St. Germain, love of Louisiana began with a free-range childhood in Kenner, living on Williams Boulevard between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi.
Saturday, November 03, 2018
The poster — a man grasping a fistful of strings tethered to books and rising high against a backdrop of the State Capitol — captures the essence of the Louisiana Book Festival.
"Nasty Water" by James Nolan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 94 pages, softcover, $14.95
Many Americans of a certain age have memories of an amusement park at the beach — winning prizes on the midway, drawing close to a sweetheart on a dark ride, feeling a little rocky on a roller coaster, screaming in a haunted house. Those rituals …
Saturday, November 03, 2018
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Saturday, October 27, 2018
"Beers Ahead: A Halloween Mystery" by P.M. LaRose, Liquid Rabbit Publishing, 272 pages, paperback, $16.95
The Festival of Words returns to Grand Coteau and the surrounding area Friday and Saturday.
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Friday, October 26, 2018
Brian Kilmeade is the first to admit Andrew Jackson wasn't perfect.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
For years, New Orleans writer and college professor Rien Fertel had no love for the Southern rock and alt-country band Drive-By Truckers.
Saturday, October 20, 2018
"Claire Carter, Bone Detective: The Mystery of the Bones in the Drainpipe" by Mary H. Manhein, illustrated by Leah Wood Jewett, Os Liber Press, 86 pages, softcover, $13
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
There are very few people who can manage to put together a free-verse, young adult novel about baseball and jazz and relate it seamlessly to young love and the trials that challenge teens, but that's what Kwame Alexander has done with Mary Rand He…
Sam C. Hyde, Jr., director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies, will sign copies of the second edition of his book, "Pistols & Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1935," from no…
Monday, October 15, 2018
CLINTON — For 40 or so years, John Adams' byline has appeared over his sports opinion columns in newspapers in Baton Rouge, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville and Knoxville. So, since his first book lists the author as John Dean Adams, it can only mean one thing.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Have you voted yet? More than 3.8 million people have.
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Saturday, October 06, 2018
Women Writers on The Dirty Truth, a Women's Week event, will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Jonathan Merritt wins awards for his writings on religion, culture and politics, which can be found in publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and Christianity Today.
Jonathan Merritt wins awards for his writings on religion, culture and politics, which can be found in publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and Christianity Today.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
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Friday, September 14, 2018
Louisiana native Sheryl St. Germain will receive the 19th annual Louisiana Writer Award.
Saturday, September 08, 2018
"Penelope Lemon, Game On"
Saturday, September 01, 2018
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Saturday, August 25, 2018
“River of Secrets: A Wallace Hartmann Mystery” by Roger Johns, Minotaur Books, $27.99, 304 pages, hardcover
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
It's a powerful thing and it's the subject of Wednesday night's "Louisiana Public Square" on WLPB.
Sunday, August 19, 2018
This might be sacrilege to say, but a good movie trailer can get me interested in a book. That's certainly the case with “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” by Jenny Han, released this month as a Netflix original movie.
Saturday, August 18, 2018
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Saturday, August 11, 2018
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Saturday, August 04, 2018
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Thursday, August 02, 2018
Only remnants of the old world exist in the new one, which awaits the arrival of the Sankofa children to restore the "Divine Balance."
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Kimberla Lawson Roby has brought this family full circle, and now she's saying farewell.
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