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Rouge author Leo Honeycutt has won the 2015 Axiom Business Book Award for “Nice
Guy Finishes First: The Clarke Williams Story,” about the creation of
Louisiana’s largest company, CenturyLink. The
book will be awarded in May at the nation’s largest book trade convention, BookExpo
America, in New York.
Coming
up on Thursday, April 2, “Wading Home: An Opera of New Orleans” will make its
premiere at the Dallas City Performance Hall in Dallas, Texas. The opera was
adapted by Mary Alice Rich from the novel “Wading Home, A Novel of New Orleans”
by Rosalyn Story. It is being produced by the Black Academy
of Arts and Letters to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane
Katrina.
Louisiana Book News is written by
Cheré Coen, the author of “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom
Town History,” “Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana” and “ExploringCajun Country: A
Historic Guide to Acadiana” and co-author of “Magic’s in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding
Gris Gris Bags and Sachets.” Write her at cherecoen@gmail.com.
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