Shelley Ingram chatted with @gambitweekly.bsky.social about Southern gas station food, homogenization, the Green Book, and "Get It While It’s Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South," which she co-edited. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/4voe34B

We're thrilled to share that "Civilians," by Jehanne Dubrow, is the Gold Medal Winner for Poetry for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Awards! Congrats, Jehanne! https://bit.ly/3RL0FZS

We’re live with Neil K. Besner, whose translation of Regina Przybycien’s "Black Beans and Diamonds" comes out on Tuesday, and Thomas Travisano, whose book "The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon" is forthcoming from LSU Press. Please join us for a convo followed by a Q&A. www.facebook.com/100063697324...

Corinne Martin appeared on The Reading Life, Susan Larson's long-running show on New Orleans Public Radio, to discuss her latest LSU Press book, "Louisiana Healing Garden." Check out their great conversation here: https://bit.ly/3QgX70S

Dan Beachy-Quick, Elements & Offerings / @lsupress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/dan-...

Another win for "Green & Blue"! The American Conference for Irish Studies has awarded Damian Shiels’s book the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America for Irish Studies. Check out the prize announcement here: https://bit.ly/4o2ppIZ

And we’re live! Please join us for a book talk and Q&A with Suzanne R. Black, author of the new book “Between Novel and Network.” www.facebook.com/LSUPress/vid...

Gavin Cologne-Brooks appeared on the Seen & Heard podcast to discuss boarding school, art, memory, and his LSU Press memoir, "Portraits from Paris: School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light." Listen here: https://bit.ly/3PwZrRf

Maine readers! This Thursday, June 4, at 6 p.m., catch Patti M. Marxsen at the Camden Public Library for a book talk on her recent biography, "Karen Blixen’s Search for Self: The Making of ‘Out of Africa’." https://bit.ly/4dx1vC0

We have two book launches this month! June 3: "Between Novel and Network" with Suzanne R. Black https://bit.ly/43BkOnD June 4: Neil K. Besner in Conversation with Thomas Travisano https://bit.ly/4x2rg4Q As always, our launches stream live at 2 p.m. CDT on Facebook Live.

A look back at our May releases. We have four releases coming in June to close out our Spring season. Stay tuned ☀️ 📚 https://bit.ly/lsuspring26

Kate Gaskin author of "A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart," recently appeared on the Postpartum Production Podcast. Check out their conversation on inspiration, parenting, and art here: https://bit.ly/42OGX1v

And we’re live! Please join us for a book talk and Q&A with Gregg Andrews, author of the new book “Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri.” www.facebook.com/100063697324...

The essays in "Rebels and Regimes" present a global view of violent resistance throughout the 19th century, revealing commonalities and differences among regimes and insurgents in their different contexts. Happy #pubday to editors Andrew Fialka and Aaron Sheehan-Dean! 📕 https://bit.ly/rebelsregimes

And we’re live! Please join us on Facebook for a book talk and Q&A with Maggie McKinley, author of the new book “The Art of Looking Back.” www.facebook.com/100063697324...

Today's featured title: "Tongues of Fire: Black Preaching in the Face of Lynching," edited by Aaron M. Treadwell, Louisiana State University Press, 2025 @lsupress.bsky.social lsupress.org/978080718490...

We just received some great news! "You Are My Sunshine," by Robert Mann, has been named a Great Reads title and will be one of two books representing the literary heritage of Louisiana at the 2026 National Book Festival, organized by Library of Congress's Center for the Book 💜https://bit.ly/4wSYt2h

Congrats to Julie Kane, whose excellent "Naked Ladies: New and Selected Poems" has been longlisted for the 2025 Julie Suk Award by Jacar Press! 📕 https://bit.ly/kanenakedladies

"Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865" by Damian Shiels "represents a significant accomplishment in advancing the study of the common Irish American soldier," writes Jeremy Knoll. Read more here: tinyurl.com/mujtfvbh @lsupress.bsky.social

James Wright was considered a major poet of his era, even though the intense emotion of his work could prove divisive. "So This Is What It Feels Like," by poet and critic Adam Scheffler, makes a renewed case for Wright’s importance. Happy #pubday! 📚 https://bit.ly/so-this-is-what-it-feels-like

We have two selections in this year’s Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show! Congrats to our designers Barbara Neely Bourgoyne and Kaelin Chappell Broaddus, and to all the other excellent presses selected for the show. https://bit.ly/3PPDBbw

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My Frank Zappa book displayed in my own backyard at The American Literature Association!

Scheduling livestreams far ahead in November already! I'm looking forward to talking with Gary Gallagher about his mother, Shirley Rose Gray. Her memoir and diary, edited by Gary, will be released in November from @lsupress.bsky.social.

Witness is its own riddle that suspects it must create a world to say the world is real. - Dan Beachy-Quick

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Drunk as a Poet on Payday: Dan Beachy-Quick. Have a listen:

Poet Dan Beachy-Quick appeared on the Drunk as a Poet on Payday podcast to discuss sound, translation, and his latest collection, "Elements & Offerings," from which he also reads. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: https://bit.ly/4nL8IBA

The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 recently interviewed two LSU Press authors: Bill Hardwig about "How Cormac Works," and John Wall Barger about "Resurrection Pie." Check out the convo with John here: https://bit.ly/4dTKKkh And the convo with Bill here: https://bit.ly/4eUFyxD

Our tablecloth didn't make it to the American Literature Association conference in Chicago, so we made some... creative style choices. If you make it to the book exhibit, come say hi!

Upcoming book launches at IASH: A few tickets are left for the launch of "Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction" (@lsupress.bsky.social) by Suzanne R. Black (@suzannerblack.bsky.social) on Fri 5 June at 5pm. 📖⌨️ betweennovelandnetwork.eventbrite.co.uk

Our May newsletter just dropped! As always, you can read it on our Substack page, or subscribe to have future editions delivered straight to your inbox. https://bit.ly/43iDaK2

"The New Rules of Dining Out," by James Beard Award-winner Adam Reiner, and "The Ramos Gin Fizz," by John Shelton Reed, have both been nominated for the 2026 Spirited Awards for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits! Check out the full list of nominations here: https://bit.ly/4uro6Wu

“As long as there are writers from this region willing to face those boundaries, stretch them, and even break them, the world of Grit Lit will continue to evolve." Toby LeBlanc Author reviewed "The Bad Poor," by Mitch Ploskonka, for the Southern Review of Books! 🖊️: https://bit.ly/4uVu7dV

New England readers! Catch Christopher Bakken at these upcoming events in support of his new LSUP collection, "Driving the Beast." Tonight at 6pm EDT: The James Merrill House — Stonington, CT https://bit.ly/4tHSrPi Tomorrow at 7pm EDT: Grolier Poetry Book Shop — Cambridge, MA https://bit.ly/4nARyXo

Poetry critic Mark Jarman included both "The Furies," by Moira Egan, and "Constellations," by Daniel Mark Epstein, in his poetry chronicle for The Hudson Review's spring issue. Check out the great piece here: https://bit.ly/3R8tcIw

"A brilliant exploration of how literature circulates in a world defined by links, logs, and fandoms." —Abigail De Kosnik "Between Novel and Network" explores forms such as digital fanfic and comics to show how networks have transformed literature. Happy #pubday! 📗 https://bit.ly/novel-network

“As long as there are writers from this region willing to face those boundaries, stretch them, and even break them, the world of Grit Lit will continue to evolve.” @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social reviews THE BAD POOR by Mitch Ploskonka. @lsupress.bsky.social

In our latest blog post, poet Kate Gaskin discusses how speculative fiction helped her write about the traumatic events that inspired her collection "A Red Knock-Knocking Like a Heart." Read it on our Substack here: https://bit.ly/4uO6GTK

“Gregg Andrews brings us another eye-opening account of working-class life: a David and Goliath story of the...struggles of shoe workers in Hannibal." —Rosemary Feurer It's #pubday for "Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri," Gregg Andrews' fascinating new history book! 📚 https://bit.ly/shoeworkers

Congratulations to Bridget Bennett, who was just awarded an Honourable Mention for the 2026 Book Prize by the British Association for American Studies for “Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic.” 🎉 https://bit.ly/49D9uuz In November, “Antislavery” won the ASA's 2025 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize.

Tyler Priest, author of the newly released "Offshore Oildom" and former senior policy analyst for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, weighed in on the future of high gas prices for Radio Iowa: https://bit.ly/3RzRTNY Catch Tyler at 2:00 p.m. CDT tomorrow on Facebook Live!

Happy #pubday to "Henry Eustace McCulloch," by David Paul Smith, the first comprehensive account of a pivotal yet overlooked nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. 📕 https://bit.ly/henry-mcculloch

Our Spring 2026 season isn't over quite yet. But if you want to get a taste of what's coming in Fall 2026, the Fall catalog is now live online! https://bit.ly/lsufall26

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It's #pubday for "The Art of Looking Back," Maggie McKinley's new book on the complex nature of nostalgia in Joan Didion's work—a theme that has often been taken for granted, oversimplified, and misunderstood. For fans of Didion and literary studies! 📘 https://bit.ly/artoflooking

Poet Ron Smith, author of "That Beauty in the Trees" (2023) and three other collections published by LSU Press, has a new poem in Plume! Read "Memorial Day, 2005," here: https://bit.ly/4wdrSnO

And we’re live! Please join us for a book talk and Q&A with Drew Flanagan, author of the new book "From Occupation to Integration." www.facebook.com/100063697324...

Join me and @lsupress.bsky.social for a virtual book launch event tomorrow, May 7, from 3-4pm EST. You'll have a chance to ask all your burning questions about From Occupation to Integration, including but not limited to "what?" and "how dare you?" #skystorians RSVP here: bit.ly/4vUq9DA

We're thrilled to announce that "The Obituary Cocktail," by Sue Strachan, is a 2026 James Beard Foundation Book Award nominee. Congratulations to Sue and everyone at the press who worked on the book! https://bit.ly/4f5J0FB 📘 For more on "The Obituary Cocktail": https://bit.ly/TheObituaryCocktail

Found out that my book, "The Obituary Cocktail," published by @lsupress.bsky.social was nominated for a 2026 James Beard Award!! Can't even express how excited I am -- and thank you to all who supported me and bought books. #ObituaryCocktail #neworleans