A couple weeks ago, OPB's Dave Miller led a poignant conversation with Floyd Skloot and his daughter, Rebecca Skloot, about aging, illness, and art at Powell's Books . What transpired is the latest "Think Out Loud" episode, available now for streaming: https://bit.ly/4hUuWyp

LSU Press poet and cli-fi author Olivia Clare Friedman talked art, parenting, caregiving, and inspiration with the Postpartum Production Podcast! Check it out here: https://bit.ly/43WV6KY

"The freshness of his language matches perfectly—abets, I should say—the freshness and candor of his world view."—David Yezzi Happy #pubday to "Inventions on the Brink," a new collection of literary journalism by the poet J. T. Barbarese! https://bit.ly/invenonthebrink

Mark Jarman reviews Young Woman with a Cane by Reginald Gibbons @lsupress.bsky.social 1/2 His political stake is with younger generations and those yet to be born: “If only we could ask children now for future forgiveness. But it’s not fair to do so. Or even think so.”

LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social will be hosting an online book launch and live Q&A with Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick on Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 2pm CT - for the recently published "Lives Revised: Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath" www.facebook.com/events/77500... #SylviaPlath #AssiaWevill

Congratulation to Bradley Morgan whose "Frank Zappa's America" made Music Connection Magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year! Music Connection called "Frank Zappa's America" "a rare book that makes us love the subject more than we did going in." Check it out here: https://bit.ly/zappasamerica

"[A] wild ride through disease-infested swamps, floating contraband camps, tinclads’ boiler bombs, and drunken melees. Gudmestad’s prose had me turning pages like a novel."—Andrew Fialka Happy #pubday to "The Devil's Own Purgatory" by Robert Gudmestad! https://bit.ly/devilsown

I’ve got a cover! My new book of poetry is coming out with @lsupress.bsky.social early in 2026. 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Grateful to the designers who made this spiraling metallic (anti-pie) cover-vibe. And to my editor James W. Long for his guidance and encouragement. 🥳 Preorder info: lsupress.org/978080718606...

We've got three great launches left in our FB Live Author Series this month! Next up: a special Monday book talk today with Katherine Rohrer. Don't forget to tune in! https://bit.ly/lsupresslaunch

"Can I send back a bottle of wine if I don’t like it?" The short answer: It's complicated. That's from Adam Reiner, who recently chatted with the SF Chronicle's restaurant critic about this and other rules of dining from his new book, "The New Rules of Dining Out": https://bit.ly/newrulesdining

Our Spring 2026 catalog is live, and all books are now available for pre-order! Check out our upcoming offerings here: https://bit.ly/lsuspring26

Out today: "Tongues of Fire," by Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)'s Aaron M. Treadwell, is a collection of sermons and other writings by Black preachers that speak to lynching in the Jim Crow era, exposing the embers of the Civil Rights Movement. Happy #pubday! https://bit.ly/tonguesfire

Excited to announce that the pre-order is available for Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century via @lsupress.bsky.social ! I have a chapter inspired by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social’s In the Wake titled Digital Wake Work! This is my first book chapter! lsupress.org/978080718619...

My book has a webpage and a release date (April 20, 2026). And if you preorder now, it's 40 percent off. It's all happening! @lsupress.bsky.social lsupress.org/978080718678...

David T. Ballantyne, FRACTURED FREEDOMS: RECONSTRUCTING CENTRAL LOUISIANA (@lsupress.bsky.social) And in the JSH: “Remembering the Colfax Massacre: Race, Sex, and the Meanings of Reconstruction Violence” (Aug 2021): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti... #2025SHA

Mark your calendars for our upcoming book launches! All launches are streamed on Facebook Live and feature a live discussion and Q&A. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/lsupresslaunch

John Shelton Reed sat down with The Advocate to discuss "The Ramos Gin Fizz," the latest in our Iconic New Orleans Cocktails series: https://bit.ly/47GnXEm

Four-time @lsupress.bsky.social author and former Poet Laureate of Virginia Ron Smith updates a seasonal poem for @styleweekly.com: bit.ly/434loup

"For those interested in the Civil War and Reconstruction, "Unreconstructed" adds a tremendous insight into the role of slavery and the enslaved on the political, social, and racial legacy in northwest Louisiana." New review in Emerging Civil War! https://bit.ly/4nCqNA6

"[A] fascinating and pathbreaking account of one of the most important—and frequently feared—institutions in modern Spanish history."—Geoffrey Jensen Happy #pubday to "Uncivil Guard" by Foster Chamberlain! Find out more here: https://bit.ly/uncivilguard

This week on @slowdownshow.org, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social reads @jennymolberg.bsky.social's "Different Kinds of Sadness." ‬This great poem first appeared in "Refusal" (LSU Press, 2020), and we were so happy to revisit it. Listen here! bit.ly/3X7C54y

"Chef Celeste’s Louisiana Kitchen" celebrates the bounty of Louisiana. With recipes that are easy to follow, the cookbook helps fledgling chefs build the confidence to manage fresh, farm-to-table meals at home. Did you catch Chef Celeste's live cooking demo? Watch it here: https://bit.ly/3WwQdUT

Sue Strachan and her book "The Obituary Cocktail" were featured in this @nytimes.com article exploring the many lives of the drink: https://bit.ly/47AusJ3

Hardwig’s latest book foregrounds the ways in which #CormacMcCarthy utilizes and manipulates language to simultaneously create and withhold meaning, draw clear images, and resist clarity. Happy #pubday to "How Cormac Works," by Bill Hardwig! https://bit.ly/howcormacworks

Only four days until the Louisiana Book Festival! Please join us at the State Library of Louisiana on Saturday, November 1st to celebrate Louisiana's rich literary culture. Event is free and open to the public.

"Egan understands received forms’ emotional and psychological layers: sonnet sequences as community gathering or anagrams as sensuous, private conversation."—Derrick Austin Happy #pubday to Moira Egan#pubdays transformative new collection, "The Furies." https://bit.ly/thefuriespoem

For our readers in Asheville, don't miss “Southern Indigenous Waters," an upcoming event with LSU Press author Kirstin Squint Thursday, 10/30 at 6pm! http://bit.ly/4n6R4GC

Portland readers: Make sure to catch Floyd Skloot in conversation with Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," and Dave Miller, host of OPB's Think Out Loud, at Powell's Books this Halloween eve! https://bit.ly/3WibPEn

New release: In "Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University," Alexander X. Byrd and W. Caleb McDaniel highlight pivotal points of intersection between the history of Black Houston and the history of Rice University. Happy #pubday! https://bit.ly/secondfounding

Moira Egan's latest poetry collection, "The Furies," is coming soon! Catch her in person at one of these upcoming events, or at our Facebook Live book launch on 12/11!

Don't miss this special evening with Daniel Mark Epstein at The New York Society Library on Tuesday, October 21st for the release of "Constellations." Both in-person and virtual options! Register here: http://bit.ly/47kTug6

Five-time (!) LSU Press author Nicole Cooley is the featured poet of the October 2025 issue of Delta Poetry Review, which features an interview, selected poems, and a review of her latest collection, "Mother Water Ash." (Re)encounter Cooley's brilliance here: https://ow.ly/U6sw50XcL7B

Please join us now on our Facebook page for a live event featuring David Lyle Williams! He will be discussing and answering questions about his new LSU Press book, “The Road to Cisterna," followed by a Q&A! bit.ly/4nRMnBz

This Ithica Times interview with Christopher Gonzales is now available online! http://bit.ly/43fJSkf

Check out this conversation with four-time LSU Press author Alice Friman (On the Overnight Train, Blood Weather, The View from Saturn, Vinculum) and Rumena Bužarovska in The Georgia Review: http://bit.ly/4nbJCtZ

Please join us now on our Facebook page for a live event featuring Chef Celeste Gill! She will be discussing and answering questions about her new LSU Press book, “Chef Celeste’s Louisiana Kitchen.” www.facebook.com/share/v/1EJk...

Here's a great new review of "Bequeath" in Compulsive Reader! http://bit.ly/4qdcmoQ

Don't miss the virtual book launch of "Chef Celeste Louisiana Kitchen," tomorrow at 2pm CT! http://bit.ly/4hbpIOk

Congratulations to Anthony Stanonis, whose LSU Press book "New Orleans Pralines" was the unanimous choice for the Gulf South Historical Association's Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award for the best work on Gulf South history! 🎊 https://bit.ly/nolapralines

🎺 Announcing our Holiday Sale 🎺 For a limited time, get 40% our latest titles and thousands more by using the code SAVE40LSU at checkout! Browse the Fall 2025 catalog now: bit.ly/lsupressfall25

New Review 🖊️ Joy Holden discusses 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘴, 𝘊𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 in Sunday's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦!

“Readers... will gain significant knowledge. But they can also get a glimpse into their own sympathies and perspectives and come to understand why it still matters. That is what good historical writing is all about.”—From a new review in 𝘑𝘈𝘏 https://bit.ly/goingtohelltogetthedevil

This week, Liz Williams of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum hosted fellow LSU Press author Adam Reiner, author of the brand-new 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘶𝘵, on her podcast 𝘛𝘪𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦! http://bit.ly/4ocX9T1

"I dare you to read this book and not fall a little in love with all these husbands, generic, specific, optimistic, self-taught, and otherwise.”—Nancy Reddy Happy #pubday to Rebecca Hazelton's witty new collection,"Generic Husband." https://bit.ly/generichusband

“A key contribution of Cirillo's intricate and insightful book is to reframe the chronology of the American abolitionist movement by making the Civil War ‘the center of, rather than a bookend to, its story.’"— New review in 𝘑𝘈𝘏 https://bit.ly/abolitionistcivilwar

Thank you so much to Cory Frye of @phoenixnewtimes.com for this amazing article on my book on Frank Zappa, and which really dives into the inherent progressivism of the mustachioed maestro's work that I sought to capture. "Frank Zappa's America" is available now from @lsupress.bsky.social!

Lorna Knowles Blake reviews Civilians by Jehanne Dubrow @lsupress.bsky.social: 1/2 A candid look at what happens to a marriage in the aftermath of active military service…Now the battles are not an ocean or a continent away, the strikes are not by faceless drone or the impersonal machinery of war.

I had great fun answering questions about surveillance and student activists in the 1960s at @askhistorians.bsky.social AMA. Thanks for inviting me, and check out my book, Spying on Students lsupress.org/978080718222..., to learn more about the topic. #skystorians.

Thank you so much to @mbwwelch.bsky.social for including my new book “Frank Zappa’s America” (@lsupress.bsky.social) on @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social’s list of new and forthcoming books from Chicago authors. So many people doing such great work that showcases what makes this city so special!

The @lsupress.bsky.social live online book launch for "Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865" is tomorrow, there will be a Q&A and a very good book discount available too😀 Details here for anyone interested in attending: fb.me/e/36Zx1D2wQ