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A Look Inside – Spanish Louisiana: Contest for the Borderlands, 1763-1803
A new book from LSU Press provides a comprehensive overview on the oft-overlooked history of the Spanish in Louisiana and New Orleans.
– by John S. Sledge
A Look Inside: Nocturnal New Orleans
This new book offers stunning night-time photographs of the Crescent City – and an insightful introduction by Richard Campanella.
by John S. Sledge
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi
In this lush new novel set in a 1950s coastal Mississippi town – one based on Bay St. Louis – author Minrose Gwin also gives the French Quarter a pivotal role as an oasis of acceptance in a sea of oppression.
– by Barb Johnson
A Look Inside: “Mobile and Havana: Sisters Across the Gulf”
This new book is an engaging blend of history and photographs, demonstrating how these “Caribbean” cities are linked – through culture, commerce and architecture.
– by Thomas Uskali
The Life of a Writer – with Help from Tennessee Williams
En Avant! Before he became a national celebrity, Tennessee Williams struggled with hardships, rejection and disappointment, yet this personal mantra kept him moving “onward” - with an exclamation point!
– by Richard Goodman
Words & Wounds: A Review of Sensitive Creatures
The essays in this powerful debut memoir by New Orleans writer Kirsten Reneau unflinchingly explore trauma, using nature as a touchstone to find understanding – and healing.
– by Skye Jackson
A Pilgrimage to Algiers: the New Orleans Home of William S. Burroughs
A writer reflects on a London visit with Williams S. Burroughs and a later pilgrimage to the Beat writer’s home in Algiers Point, a place immortalized in Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
– by Richard Goodman
Louisiana Lens: Through Light and Time
A lavish new volume by John H. Lawrence celebrates an extraordinary collection of Louisiana images and the photographers who created them.
– by John S. Sledge
Meeting in the Middle: A New Literary Event on the Mississippi Coast
The Mississippi coast plays host to authors from across the state and from nearby New Orleans, as the HOMEGROWN Writers’ Exchange creates a new literary nexus.
Drain the Swamp: The Definitive Account
A new book by Richard Campanella details the soggy saga of a city built on a deltaic plain, sandwiched between the continent’s largest river on one side and a 1.5 trillion-gallon lake on the other.
– by John S. Sledge
The Return of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Festival
After a three-year pandemic-related hiatus, one of the city’s favorite literary events makes a September comeback – with a series of author presentations and concerts slated for 2024.
- by Michael Warner
Dauphine Street Books on Chartres Street
After 25 years on the street that is its namesake, a classic French Quarter bookstore moves into a spacious corner location, steps from Jackson Square.
– by Christopher Louis Romaguera
More Than a Memoir
A review of Karen Hinton’s no-holds-barred book exploring toxic power relationships in school, the workplace, politics – and in her own life.
– by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Marcel Giraud’s Definitive Histories of French Louisiana
Over the course of half a lifetime, one meticulous French scholar laid a firm foundation for all future researchers of colonial Louisiana
— By John S. Sledge
Review – Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler
In this new book, New Orleans historian and author Frank Perez delves into the fascinating life of the late LGBT+ activist, a man both driven and influential.
– by Clayton Delery
Poet on the Levee: Walt Whitman’s New Orleans
In this new book, amble through 1850s New Orleans with an itinerant journalist who would become one of the country’s most beloved poets.
— John S. Sledge
"They Called Us River Rats"
A fascinating new book by long-time resident Macon Fry explores life along the last batture community in New Orleans.
The Sound of the Sea: A Review
"Money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas": This delightful new book by environmental writer Cynthia Barnett explores the fascinating world of seashells.
Two Blondes and a Buccaneer
A North Carolina mother and daughter claim Jean Laffite faked his death and lived to a ripe old age in the Tar Heel State.
A Rousing New Anthology: The Gulf South
Even regional literary connoisseurs are likely to discover new favorites in the first powerhouse anthology of Gulf Coast environmental writing, edited by Tori Bush and Richard Goodman.