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- Season's Reading 2009
Baton Rouge Gallery
Sunday, December 6 at 2:00pm
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- John Maxwell Hamilton appears on Worldfocus 9:34am Nov 12
- Moroccan Households wins Julian Steward Award 8:27am Nov 11
- Betty Adcock reviewed and interviewed 7:32am Nov 2
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LSU Press FALL 2009Updated on Wednesday
February 2009Created about 10 months ago
LSU Press
On Sunday, December 6, LSU Press will hold SEASON’S READINGS: THE LSU PRESS HOLIDAY BOOK SALE from 2:00 to 5:00 PM at the Baton Rouge Gallery on City Park Avenue. Unique, personalized gifts for booklovers of all ages will be offered at a special 20% discount and free gift wrapping, as well as ample free parking, will ...be available.
Many authors will be on hand to autograph books for everyone on your gift list. New books for this year’s event include Above Baton Rouge by Fred C. Frey, Jr., and Tom Guarisco; We Were Merchants by Hans J. Sternberg, D’Army Bailey’s The Education of a Black Radical, Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico,by Barry Keim and Robert Muller, as well as John Maxwell Hamilton’s Journalism’s Roving Eye.
Perennial favorites Paul F. Dietzel, author of Call Me Coach; Scott Rabalais, author of The Fighting Tigers, 1993 – 2008; Danny Heitman, author of A Summer of Birds, as well as C.C. Lockwood, Mary Anne Sternberg, Ava Haymon, and others will also be on hand to personalize gifts for bibliophiles.
Many other titles will be available, including books on photography, fiction, history, gardening, poetry, politics, Louisiana studies, travel, LSU history, and much, much more. For more information, including a map, visit http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress.
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Many authors will be on hand to autograph books for everyone on your gift list. New books for this year’s event include Above Baton Rouge by Fred C. Frey, Jr., and Tom Guarisco; We Were Merchants by Hans J. Sternberg, D’Army Bailey’s The Education of a Black Radical, Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico,by Barry Keim and Robert Muller, as well as John Maxwell Hamilton’s Journalism’s Roving Eye.
Perennial favorites Paul F. Dietzel, author of Call Me Coach; Scott Rabalais, author of The Fighting Tigers, 1993 – 2008; Danny Heitman, author of A Summer of Birds, as well as C.C. Lockwood, Mary Anne Sternberg, Ava Haymon, and others will also be on hand to personalize gifts for bibliophiles.
Many other titles will be available, including books on photography, fiction, history, gardening, poetry, politics, Louisiana studies, travel, LSU history, and much, much more. For more information, including a map, visit http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress.
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Our 5th Annual Holiday Sale!
Time:2:00PM Sunday, December 6th
Location:Baton Rouge Gallery
John Maxwell Hamilton, author of Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of Foreign Reporting, was recently interviewed on Worldfocus (PBS). Click the link below to watch the interview.Analyzing media coverage and embeds in U.S. conflicts (Worldfocus)
LSU Press Watch John Maxwell Hamilton on Worldfocus
Source: worldfocus.org
On this Veteran's Day, we look at the role of journalists and their coverage of America's conflicts. John Maxwell Hamilton, former foreign correspondent and currently the dean of journalism at Louisiana ...
David Crawford has won the Julian Steward Award, given by the American Anthropological Association, for his book, Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequity in a Berber Village. The award will be presented at the annual AAA meeting in Philadelphia in early December.
Betty Adcock's most recent collection of poetry, Slantwise, was recently reviewed by the online journal Cerise Press. Ms....
Alexander X. Bryd has won the American Historical Association's 2009 Wesley-Logan Prize for his book, Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. Congratulations, Professor Byrd!
John Maxwell Hamilton will give a lecture and participate in a panel discussion at an upcoming Associated Press Book Night event on November 10th. Click here to read more about this event.
D'Army Bailey, author of The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey, received an official apology from the Southern University Board of Supervisors this weekend. Bailey had been expelled from the university in 1962 for taking part in demonstrations against ...
Source: bit.ly
D'Army Bailey, author of The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey, received an official apology from the Southern University Board of Supervisors his weekend. Bailey had been suspended from the university in 1962 for taking...
Barton
will be interviewed about _Executing Daniel Bright_ (LSU Press, 2009) at the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago this Saturday at noon CST. Check it out at:
www.virtualbooksigning.net
Hans Sternberg's new book, We Were Merchants, recently received an excellent review in the Wall Street Journal. Read the review by clicking the link below.Hospitality Department (Wall Street Journal)
Source: online.wsj.com
Mark Robichaux reviews Hans. J. Sternberg's story of how his family fled Nazi Germany and built a Deep South shopping empire from one store in Baton Rouge, La.
LSU Press mourns the passing of Charles East who died last week at the age of 84. He served as editor (1962-1970) and director of LSU Press (1970-1975) and authored several books...
William Styron's Letters to My Father has recently been reviewed in the Washington Post.Click here to read the reivew.
