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…
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
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.
Baton Rouge
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, October 06, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Baton Rouge
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.
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.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Baton Rouge
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
Baton Rouge
Saturday, August 25, 2018
“River of Secrets: A Wallace Hartmann Mystery” by Roger Johns, Minotaur Books, $27.99, 304 pages, hardcover
Baton Rouge
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
Baton Rouge
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, August 04, 2018
Baton Rouge
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.
Baton Rouge
In Helen Hoang’s debut novel "The Kiss Quotient," econometrist Stella Lane has found success in business. She lives a stable, regular life.
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, July 07, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, June 30, 2018
"Creoles of South Louisiana: Three Centuries Strong" by Elista Istre, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, $29.95, 335 pages, softcover
Baton Rouge
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, June 16, 2018
“Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810-1935” by Samuel C. Hyde Jr., LSU Press, $27.95, paperback
Baton Rouge
Saturday, June 09, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, June 02, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Baton Rouge
Monday, May 21, 2018
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, May 12, 2018
"The Tannells' Family Secret" by Lashonda Beauregard, independently published, $7.99 (ebook $2.99), 42 pages, paperback
For the second time in three years, McKinley High School's team won top honors April 28 at the 2018 ALL CITY Teen Poetry Slam Festival.
Entries for the 12th annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence are due by Aug. 15.
Baton Rouge
Saturday, May 05, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Baton Rouge
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Baton Rouge
Friday, April 20, 2018
"A World in Yellow Leaf" by Andrew King, iUniverse, $13.99, 107 pages, softcover
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Baton Rouge