Lsu Press: 854 books
Edna Ferber's America
The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780--1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
From the 1910s to the 1950s, Edna Ferber (1885--1968) published a series of bestselling novels that made her one of Doubleday's highest-paid authors, earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925, and transformed her into a literary celebrity. She hosted dinner parties covered by the New York Times,...
A Talent for Living
Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels -- Three O'Clock Dinner was the...
Search and Rescue
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
In Search and Rescue, Michael Chitwood seeks what the pagan Celts called the thin places, the spots where otherworldliness bleeds into the everyday. Beginning with childhood, the poet meditates on the intersection of the sacred and secular, on those luminous moments we can only partially understand....
William Spratling, His Life and Art
Selected Essays in Economic and Social History
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary silver designs, Spratling influenced an entire...
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
The "Southern Review" Years, 1935-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
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Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969-1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national "malaise," Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work, securing his place in the canon of American poetry.
Volume...
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume three, provides an indispensable glimpse of Warren the writer and the man, covering a crucial decade in his life. Edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins, and introduced by William Bedford Clark, this collection of largely previously unpublished...
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
New Beginnings and New Directions, 1953-1968
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren's life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence, he completed Brother to Dragons; Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South; and Who Speaks for...
Black Aperture
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother's suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief and humor. In "Outgoing," the speaker erases his brother's answering machine message to save his family from "the shame...
by Benjamin F. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s and the violent controversies that surrounded it appeared to pass two very different judgments on the France of the Third Republic. The outcome o the trial -- Captain Dreyfus convicted without guilt and the real traitor acquitted despite guilt -- demonstrated without...
Writing Blackness
John Edgar Wideman's Art and Experimentation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
One of the most critically acclaimed yet least recognized contemporary writers, African American author John Edgar Wideman creates work often described as difficult, even unfathomable. In Writing Blackness, James Coleman examines Wideman's prolific body of work with the goal of making his often elusive...
The Sugar Masters
Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard...
I Remember Jazz
Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their...
Slim Harpo
Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
As Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco,
Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo’s...