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Alum Burke's 'Feastday' is Magnum Opus  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
NPR's Martha Woodruff on UL's Ernest Gaines  Rockbridge (VA) Weekly 
Alum Guillory's Latest 'Chew' Installment  Newsarama 
Alum Burke's 'Killer Prose'  Columbus Dispatch 
Alum Burke's Latest Novel 'Superbly Written'  ABC News 
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Dupré to Hold Annual Book Sale November 10-12

Louisiana.edu on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 11:43

The Friends of Dupré Library will hold their Annual Book Sale from November 10-12. The sale will take place on the first floor of the Edith Garland Dupré Library, located at 400 East St. Mary Boulevard on the UL campus.

Alumna Continues UL Banned Book Tradition in Ohio

ultoday.com Staff on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 16:08

UL alumna Amanda Anderson, now an English instructor at Washington State CC in Marietta OH has continued a tradition she experienced as graduate student at UL: she has organized students and staff there to read books that have been banned at various times and places across the United States. The event is part of Banned Books Week, an annual event held to show support for First Amendment rights and to promote the free exchange of ideas.

Ernest Gaines Reads at UL

Louisiana.edu on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 07:08

Ernest J. Gaines, writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana, will give his first public reading at the university’s Ernest J. Gaines Center on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. Gaines is the author of eight books of fiction, including the classics The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson before Dying.

Alum Burke Publishes "Feast Day"

Submitted Article on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 16:43

UL alum and Mystery Grand Master James Lee Burke has published his latest effort, Feast Day of Fools, and the critics are raving.

Alum Lavergne Wins Top Prize from Texas Institute of Letters

Submitted Article on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 16:15

Dallas — UL alumnus Gary Lavergne’s account of the struggle to desegregate the University of Texas law school, Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road to Justice was the top winner for nonfiction at the Texas Institute of Letters’ (TIL) awards banquet Saturday, April 30, 2011.

UL Press Wins Williams Prize

Submitted Article on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 16:49

The University of Louisiana Press, in the Center for Louisiana Studies has won the 2010 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History for Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828—1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History written by Richard Campanella, a Tulane research professor and associate director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research.

Alum/Prof/Poet Laureate Bourque appears at Lamar U

Submitted Article on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 16:38

Louisiana Poet Laureate Darrell Bourque will read from his work Thursday, April 14, at Lamar University.

Prof/Alum/Poet Laureate Bourque to Host Louisiana Poets

Submitted Article on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 16:48

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne is announcing a special event Just Listen to Yourself: The Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets. Louisiana's Poet Laureate, UL English professor Darrell Bourque is hosting the event from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, at the State Library.

PBS Video: Ernest Gaines Profiled

Submitted Article on Wed, 02/23/2011 - 09:41

In the acclaimed PBS show Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, NBC's award-winning broadcast journalist Bob Faw profiles UL's Dr. Ernest Gaines.

Louisiana State Library Black History Month Presents UL's Gaines

Submitted Article on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 17:57

Baton Rouge: In celebration of Black History Month, the State Library of Louisiana will hold a program focusing on the literary aspect of black history at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at the State Library of Louisiana's seminar center, located at 701 N. Fourth St. in Baton Rouge. The program is free and open to the public.