John Sledge recently gave Angola to Zydeco a rather sweet review in Mobile, Alabama’s Press Register (“Newspaper’s loss is book readers’ gain”): Fuller has an unadorned and straight-ahead style and an admirable ability to get out of his subjects’ way and let them do the talking. In short, there’s no writer’s ego here, and it…
The news is out, all over town
Today, The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette ran Jodi Belgard’s piece about Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives. They also ran a very fine piece by Cheré Dastugue Coen, which also appeared in the Monroe News-Star. Cheré is an author and journalist who runs Louisiana Book News. What struck me about her piece was how she chose…
It’s the talk of the town
Jodi Belgard at The Town Talk in Alexandria has written a sweet feature about Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives. I’ll be in Alexandria on Saturday at Julia’s Mexican Restaurant signing copies of the book from 5-7 p.m. And yes – as my father-in-law has already pointed out to me – it’s right before the LSU game. But…
Interview with a Publisher
During the 2011 Louisiana Book Festival, I sat down with Steve Yates – marketing director at the University Press of Mississippi – in the state capitol in Baton Rouge and talked about Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives.