“Lucky Enough: A Year of a Dad’s Daily Notes of Encouragement and Life Lessons to His Daughter” by Chris Yandle, Page Publishing, 214 pages, paperback, $15.95
A new exhibit at the LSU Libraries Special Collections is keying in on Sherlock Holmes, the detective featured in this year's One Book, One Community selection.
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NEW IBERIA — The Books Along the Teche Literary Festival will welcome author Rebecca Wells as its 2019 Great Southern Writer.
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Desireé Dallagiacomo used to have an answer to the question, “Have you always been a writer?”
NEW ORLEANS — When Nick Mueller walks through the D-Day section of the National WWII Museum, it’s not the wall-sized picture of the German defense structures on Omaha and Utah beaches he wants visitors to see.
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Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
A series of free spoken word workshops reflecting on the themes of criminal justice, incarceration and the modern prison system are being held in Lafayette.
This year’s One Book One Community celebration of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle kicks off Saturday, Feb. 23.
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"The New Iberia Blues" by James Lee Burke, Simon & Schuster, 447 pages, hardcover, $27.99
"I told myself I didn't know why I was standing on the bank of a tidal stream in rain that was coming down harder by the second. That wasn't true. For me, the rain has always been the conduit between the visible and the unseen worlds …The rain was…
The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana will celebrate Black History Month during the annual Black History Month program at noon Feb. 13.
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"Potpourri, Don’t Call it Poetry" by Rosalyn Rita Nicholas (maiden name), Sunstone Press, 136 pages, paperback, $16.95
Award-winning authors Jack Bedell, Jason Berry, Alysson Foti Bourque, Dima Ghawi, C.H. Lawler and Erica Spindler are on tap for the Writers and Readers Symposium to be held Saturday, Feb. 16, in St. Francisville.
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Baton Rouge
Time to make a little room on the old bookshelf. The Friends of the LSU Libraries Book Bazaar will be held Thursday through Saturday.
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The cover of Julie Murphy’s novel “Dumplin,’” a simple female figure in a red gown with her arms outstretched on a black background, consistently grabbed my eye. But the book never quite made it into my shopping cart.
"Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the Corporation" by Joseph N. Abraham, MD; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press; 304 pages; paperback; $24.95
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Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
Editor's Note: "Louisiana Literature" highlights recently published book from area authors.
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Editor's Note: "Louisiana Literature" highlights recently published books from area authors.
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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…
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.”
"Being Loved and Loving" by Betty Cicero Robert
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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.
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.
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Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
“I accidentally wrote this book on hope,” best-selling author Anne Lamott told the audience.
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.
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 …
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"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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