Sunday, November 12, 2017

Donna Brazile visiting LSU to discuss 'Hacks'

Donna Brazile, a Louisiana native who worked as a political strategist, including during the 2016 Hilary campaign, will discuss her recent book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House” at 5:30 p.m. Friday in Hill Memorial Library on the LSU campus. The book details the aftermath of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Convention, the resignation of party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the final months of the 2016 campaign. Brazile is currently a Joan Shorenstein fellow at The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a contributor to ABC News. She has served twice as interim chair of the Democratic National Committee. A graduate of LSU, Brazile worked on every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2000, when she served as Al Gore’s campaign manager. In 2014, Brazile donated her papers to LSU Libraries Special Collections. This book talk is free and open to the public.

Letters contest
The Letters About Literature program kicks off its 25th annual competition, run by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The program invites readers in grades four through 12 to share letters they have written to authors whose books affected them. For more information about the contest, including instructions for entering and deadlines for each state, and to register for the webinar, visit read.gov/letters

Spell-a-bration 2017
The Lafayette Public Library Foundation hosts its annual Spell-a-bration adult spelling bee where teams of three will compete for prizes at 6 p.m. tonight. Participants who attend the fundraiser will also be treated to cuisine from local restaurants and an open bar. All proceeds raised from Spell-a- bration go to purchase books for Lafayette Reads Together, a program created to encourage community involvement to increase literacy. To purchase tickets, visit the Lafayette Public Library Foundation’s Facebook page.

New releases
The Southern Review, a literary magazine founded in 1935 at LSU, has published its autumn issue and includes National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz, as well as emerging writers. The issue also features the collaged paintings of Jesse McCloskey, a contemporary artist based in New York City. The autumn issue is now available for purchase online at http://thesouthernreview.org.

Kirkus Prize
Jack E. Davis has won the 2017 Kirkus Prize for “The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea,” an environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that considers the ravages of nature and man. The book joins Cherie Dimaline’s “The Marrow Thieves” and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky.”

Book events the week of Nov. 12-18
LaJoanoune M. Lathan will read from her book of poetry, Inspirations from the Holy Spirit,” at 3 p.m. today at Jones Creek Library of Baton Rouge.

D.A. Field, author of “Blood Memory Society,” will sign copies at 6 p.m. Thursday at Garden District Book Shop of New Orleans. Also through the bookstore is Isabel Allende, author of “In the Midst of Winter,” in conversation with Anne Gisleson at 6 p.m. Friday at The Academy of Sacred Heart, 4521 St. Charles Ave in New Orleans. The latter event requires a ticket.

Brett Abrams reads from and signs “Terry Bradshaw: From Super Bowl Champion to Television Personality” at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum in Natchitoches.

Dixie Poché signs copies of “Louisiana Sweets: King Cakes, Bread Pudding and Sweet Dough Pie” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the 1850 House Museum Store, 523 St. Ann St. in New Orleans.

Louisiana author Lisa Poche Calhoun will discuss her new novel, “Superflare: The Fortunate One,” at 2 p.m. Saturday at Jones Creek Library of Baton Rouge. A book signing and reception will follow her presentation.

 The 2017 International Conference on World War II will be Thursday through Saturday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Andrea Brew will sign copies of “Twas the Night Before Bayou Classic” at 11 a.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble Perkins Rowe in Baton Rouge.


Chere Coen is the author of several Louisiana non-fiction books and the “Viola Valentine” Louisiana paranormal mystery series under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Write her at cherecoen@gmail.com.

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