Humanities Book News Today

“Everyone Has a Story” is the theme of the 2023 Jefferson Parish Librarys Children’s Book Festival coming up at 10 a.m. Dec. 2, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747

Nearly 200 authors and presenters, ranging from award winners to self-published and debut authors, will discuss their books during more than 100 panels and programs at the 19th Louisiana Book

Evelyne M. Bornier and Margaret M. Marshalls Book Parcours Louisianais, Panorama de la littand#233;rature francophone de Louisiane de ses origines and#224; 1900, Volume I, has been nominated for the 2023 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book, or LEH, of the Year Award.

Thongchai Winichakul’s book, Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976 Massacre in Bangkok, was awarded the 2022 EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize.

Local writers Fatima Shaik and Michael Tisserand sat down Friday (March 11) to talk about “Hidden History: Black and Creole Influence and Culture in New Orleans” at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.  Shaik’s book chronicles the history of Black New Orleans through a group comprised of free men-of-color, the Société d’Economie et […]

May 1961, and one tune was sitting pretty atop both the R&B and pop charts: Mother-in-Law became the first hit by a New Orleans artist to rule black and white airwaves alike. Ernie K-Doe was only twenty-five years old, and his reign was just beginning. Born in New Orleans s Charity Hospital, K-Doe came of age in a still-segregated South. He built his musical chops singing gospel in church, graduating to late-night gigs on the city s backstreets. He practiced self-projection, reinvention, sheddi...