Louisiana Center for the Book has selected "Soggy Like Cush Cush" by Karly Pierre and "You Are My Sunshine" by Robert Mann as ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Louisiana Book Festival lets book lovers from across the state meet their favorite authors, shop from vendors and celebrate literature. The festival will be ...

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Center for the Book at the State Library of Louisiana have announced Louisiana’s two “Great Reads from Great Places” selections for the 2026 ...

Can’t wait for the Louisiana Book Festival? Sign up to hone your own writing at a workshop with some of the featured authors on Friday, Nov. 1, at the State Library of Louisiana in downtown Baton ...

Thanks to poet Gina Ferrara, I have had the pleasure of reading at the Poetry Buffet in New Orleans, a series that is as old as the Louisiana Book Festival. I first read at the Poetry Buffet Series 12 ...

Susan Larson previews the Louisiana Book Festival with their director, Robert Wilson, State Librarian Meg Placke and Louisiana Writer Award winner Julie Kane. Former dean of students at Ole Miss ...

Louisiana locals shouted out their favorite independent bookstores in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and beyond. We made a list of ...