Everyone knows the feeling of overhearing a stranger’s conversation that lies somewhere between comically odd and flat-out strange. University alumna Carlin Mumphrey takes this simple human...

The 31st annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival will begin Wednesday in New Orleans. The festival is a five-day celebration of the life of Williams, a late distinguished playwright. The...

ZZ Packer is on campus this week as part of the Distinguished Visiting Writer Series put on by the University’s English department. Packer received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale, a master’s...

TEDxLSU is back for a fifth year of powerful, inspiring talks featuring University alumni and faculty, to be held March 11. TEDx is a branch of the TED talks, held yearly in Vancouver, B.C., which celebrate...

Prior to working as an introductory mass communication instructor, Freda Dunne worked for The Advocate for 40 years. After her retirement on Sept. 20, 2013 — coincidentally the same date as her wedding...

After years of dedication, a Baton Rouge author had her novel “Ava’s Place” published by Kensington Books in January. Emily Beck Cogburn works as a YMCA group fitness instructor,...

With the success of comic book film adaptations like “The Avengers” and “The Walking Dead,” comic book sales have been on the rise for years. According to ICv2, a trade magazine...

Local comic book store Louisiana Double Play, located on the corner of Bricksome Avenue and South Sherwood Forest Boulevard, has its doors open to anyone in need of a great story. Its wide selection of...

Weekly newspaper editor and now author Stanley Nelson of the Concordia Sentinel in Ferriday, La., has dedicated nearly a decade to telling the stories of eight black murder victims of Ku Klux Klan.  He...

LSU graduate student Michael Seaberry shows where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience through poetry and other forms of writing in his upcoming book, “...The Mississippi Crying: A Collection...

The Fall 2016 issue of Civil War Book Review has been made available online. CWBR is a quarterly journal of record for new or newly reprinted books about the antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction eras,...

Fahima Ife, an assistant professor of English education at the University, was raised by a single mother in southern California. She became an avid reader at a young age, but it wasn’t until the...