“Call Me Shakbatina”
LeAnne Howe’s Shell Shaker
Rien Fertel
“Too Damn Mean to Cry”
A Harlem Renaissance look at the ruin of a man
Literature
A Confederacy of Dunces
Despite the difficulties John Kennedy Toole faced while trying to publish A Confederacy of Dunces, the novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and sell more than two million copies.
A Lesson On Waiting
A Pox on All Their Houses
Valerie Martin's A Recent Martyr
Bad Romance, Bad Research
Cornell Woolrich’s Waltz into Darkness
Foodways
Beignets
Beignets, or pockets of fried dough served with powdered sugar, are an iconic New Orleans treat.
Black and Blue
Between the covers with Steve Cannon
Foodways
Bread Pudding
Stale loaves of bread get a sweet rebirth in this popular baked dessert.
Brief, Brutish, and Bacchic
Nancy Lemann’s Lives of the Saints
Brown Pelican
An excerpt from Rien Fertel’s latest book from LSU Press
Can You Hear Me, Sergeant Blue?
A hard-boiled detective in an intergalactic world
01/03
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