LSU Press
-
Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South
$34.95 Add to cartFor three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Black families living within a mile of the Southern Pa
- Author: Henley, Lauren Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 13 2026
- ISBN10: 080718618X
- Language: English
-
Caf? Lafitte in Exile: Queer New Orleans and the Story of America’s Oldest Gay Bar
$32.95 Add to cartCaf? Lafitte in Exile tells the story of queer New Orleans through the lens of its most legendary gay bar. The bar has held a central place in New Orleans’s queer scene for many years, with a profuse
- Author: Perez, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0807185841
- Language: English
-
Louisiana Healing Garden: Medicinal Plants for a Sustainable Future
$34.95 Add to cartLouisiana Healing Garden offers a guide to the medicinal properties of everyday plants such as crape myrtle, gardenia, and sweet olive, encouraging readers to learn about these plants and their uses w
- Author: Martin, Corinne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0807185302
- Language: English
-
A Red Knock-Knocking Like a Heart: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartA Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart chronicles a mother’s harrowing journey through infant loss and a disastrous hospital birth, while also exploring the joyful complexities of raising a neurodivergent … [more below]
- Author: Gaskin, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: February 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0807186147
- Language: English
-
Steady Daylight: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartSteady Daylight, the latest volume of poetry from Joseph Bathanti, returns to the place he grew up, the now-vanished neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. The speaker traipses fearlessly betwee… [more below]
- Author: Bathanti, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: February 11 2026
- ISBN10: 080718585X
- Language: English
-
New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
$34.95 Add to cartIntended for general readers, Charles D. Chamberlain’s New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City offers a broad, reliable overview of the city’s history. Although many excellent books are
- Author: Chamberlain, Charles D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 080718487X
- Language: English
-
Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives Through Public Design
$49.95 Read moreFinalist for the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes’ J.B. Jackson Book Prize
Empty Pedestals uses a design perspective to explore how monuments to the Confederacy sp
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title- Series: Reading the American Landscape
- Author: Boone, Kofi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181560
- Language: English
-
Elements & Offerings
$20.95 Add to cartThe poet Paul Celan noted that, in his view of language, thinking and thanking are cognate, innately connected in their roots and connotations. Elements & Offerings, a new collection of poems by Dan … [more below]
- Author: Beachy-Quick, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0807186031
- Language: English
-
Rubble Masonry
$29.95 Add to cartRubble Masonry is a collection of lyric essays that takes its title from the practice of stone masons who, rather than using materials cut to ideal measurements, work with found rocks’ natural shapes…. [more below]
- Author: McLarney, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0807185892
- Language: English
-
Driving the Beast: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartDriving the Beast is a book about movement. Christopher Bakken’s poems shift between Greece and the American Midwest, tracking the restless nature of selfhood, while seeking glimpses of the sacred in … [more below]
- Series: Sewanee Poetry
- Author: Bakken, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: December 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184756
- Language: English
-
We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
$44.95 Add to cartThe poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkans
- Author: Gray, Laguana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807157686
- Language: English
-
Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway
$39.95 Add to cartThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers’s magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach ha… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185094
- Language: English
-
The Furies: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn The Furies, Moira Egan offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey, in verse… [more below]
- Author: Egan, Moira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: October 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184985
- Language: English
-
The Ramos Gin Fizz
$24.95 Add to cartThe Ramos Gin Fizz was invented sometime around 1890 by Henry Charles “Carl” Ramos at his Imperial Cabinet saloon in New Orleans. It includes lemon and lime juice, egg white, cream, and orange flower
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Reed, John Shelton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183520
- Language: English
-
The Obituary Cocktail
$24.95 Add to cartIn a city known for celebrating in the face of death, it’s no surprise that the funerary tradition is honored by a drink. The Obituary Cocktail is a spirited dive into New Orleans’s bohemian past, chr
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Strachan, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184799
- Language: English
-
Chef Celeste’s Louisiana Kitchen: Simplifying Cajun and Creole Cuisine
$34.95 Add to cartChef Celeste Gill began to learn traditional southern cooking from her mother and grandmother at the age of four. Raised in Detroit and trained as a chef in Hawaii, she ultimately chose to make her ho
- Author: Gill, Celeste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184977
- Language: English
-
By Stone and Needle: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
Shimmering to the pulse of the unseen, By Stone and Needle circles like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a bo- Author: Carter, Catherine W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185078
- Language: English
-
The Road to Cisterna: Darby’s Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II
$44.95 Add to cartThe Road to Cisterna is the story of Darby’s Rangers, an elite American army unit in World War II, selected for toughness and specially trained in beach landings and lightning raids deep behind enemy
- Author: Williams, David Lyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185035
- Language: English
-
The New Rules of Dining Out: An Insider’s Guide to Enjoying Restaurants
$29.95 Add to cartThe New Rules of Dining Out is the quintessential resource for anyone, from the casual diner to the ardent foodie, who wants to dine like a pro. Sharing colorful anecdotes from his 20-plus years of ex
- Author: Reiner, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185043
- Language: English
-
You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
$29.95 Add to cartIn You Are My Sunshine, Robert Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II, and the American civil rights movement to produce a compelling biography of o
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183504
- Language: English
