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| New Releases |
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| The center's newest releases include Richard Campanella's Geographies of New Orleans, Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step & Swing edited by Ryan A. Brasseaux and Kevin S. Fontenot, the final volume of Fred Daspit's examination Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, and Monster of the Deep: The Louisiana State Museum's Civil War-Era Submarine by Greg Lambousy. |
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| The center also released a paperback edition of the highly popular Yankee Autumn in Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition Through Southwestern Louisiana, October-December 1863. Other new center publications include Stephen Verderber's Compassion in Architecture. Fearful Ravages: Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1796-1905, by Benjamin Trask, details the legacy of the mosquito-borne illness and its deadly consequences for the Crescent City until its eradication in 1905. Also released is Mamou: Acadiana Folklore, Natural History, and Botany of the Mamou Plant, Erythrina herbaceae L. (Fabaceae) by William Dean Reese. |
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| The Center announces its new book series, Louisiana Writers Series, the first installment of which is Darrell Bourque's The Blue Boat. The center is seeking submissions to continue the series. If you are a writer from Louisiana or livng in Louisiana, please consider submitting works of long and short fiction, poetry, essays and plays. Submissions must follow the center's submission guidelines. In addition, the Center established a new audio series entitled the Louisiana Folkmasters Series, beginning with a CD compilation of fiddle legend Varise Conner's music. The next installment, on women's home music, is slated for release at the 2007 Festival International. |
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| Look for these new titles this spring: Riding on the Ether Express by Dave Pierce, a DNR-sponsored book entitled Inherit the Atchafalaya and compiled by Greg Guirard and Ray Brassieur, My Fiddlin' Grounds by Ron Yule, a new annotated edition of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave by Sue Eakin, Reinhart Kondert's biography Charles Frederick D'Arensbourg and the Germans of Colonial Louisiana, and Henry Robertson's "In the Habit of Acting Together:" The Emergence of the Whig Party in Louisiana, 1828-1840. |
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| To purchase these and other Center publications, please contact the Book Distribution Manager, Becky Watson (rab9971@louisiana.edu), or purchase them online at booksXYZ.com. You can also visit the Center, on the third floor of Edith Garland Dupré Library, and purchase books with cash, check, or money order. |
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