At the end of the month, local authors will come together with LSU Press and The Southern Review to offer a special holiday treat.
Their Season’s Readings book and journal sale on Nov. 29. The sale will be held as a part of the University’s Holiday Spectacular and will feature many of the publishers’ works at discounted prices.
Season’s Readings will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Club at LSU Union Square with free parking available in the Union Square Parking Garage from 4:30p.m. to 8:30p.m.
In addition to works being sold at 20 percent off, free gift wrapping will be available and more than a dozen local authors will be in attendance. Guests will be able to meet the authors and enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres, coffee and a cash bar.
Many LSU Press and The Southern Review works will be available, and authors will be in attendance to sign copies of their works. Featured works include: “The Golden Band from Tigerland” by Faye Phillips, “Devils Walking” by Stanley Nelson, “Military Aviation in the Gulf South” by Vincent P. Caire, “Lift Your Spirits” by Liz Williams, “Fonville Winans’s Louisiana” by Cyril Vetter, “Waterlines” by Alison Pelegrin, “Afton Villa” by Genevieve Trimble, “Legendary Louisiana Outlaws” by Keagan LeJeune, Billy Cannon and his biographer Charles deGravelles, “Louisiana Wild” by C. C. Lockwood, “A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook” by Cynthia LeJeune Nobles, “Seat Yourself” by Alex Cook, “Hungry for Louisiana” by Maggie Richardson, “River Road Rambler” by Mary Ann Sternberg, “Best of LSU Fiction” with editors Nolde Alexius and Judy Kahn and Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana Ava Leavell Haymon.
The University’s annual Holiday Spectacular has existed since 1995. Formerly known as the “Candlelight Celebration,” the event’s website describes it as “a collaborative initiative to promote all there is to do and see at LSU during the holiday season.”
Other events that will take place during the Holiday Spectacular include holiday performances by students, faculty and other community organizations, the University’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony, the Staff Senate’s Holiday on the Campus carnival for students and children of students, faculty and staff, a pre-Kwanzaa celebration, Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” concert with LSU Women’s Chorale along with the St. James Treble Choir and ending with the President’s Late Night Breakfast in the 459 Commons and The 5 dining halls.
Both LSU Press and The Southern Review were founded in 1935. According to the LSU Press website, they “quickly established itself as one of the nation’s outstanding scholarly presses and continues to garner national and international accolades, including four Pulitzer Prizes.” The Southern Review is “one of the nation’s premier literary journals,” according to their website, and publishes various works in the genres of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.