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Louisiana Anthology Podcast

The Louisiana Anthology Podcast is an part of the larger project of the Louisiana Anthology. We release new episodes every Saturday, and the podcasts last for around an hour. The purpose of the Louisiana Anthology Podcast is to discuss the literature and culture of Louisiana. We broadcast interviews with various authors, artists, and scholars about their contributions to Louisiana.

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622. Elisa Speranza, Part 2

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2025/04/18

622. Part 2 of our conversation with Elisa Speranza about her novel, The Italian Prisoner. "1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives withher Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas.When the parish priest organizes a goodwill mission to visit Italian prisoners of war at a nearby military base, Rose and her vivacious

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621. Elisa M. Speranza, part 1

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2025/04/12

621. Part 1 of our interview with Elisa M. Speranza, author of The Italian Prisoner. "1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas.When the parish priest organizes a goodwill mission to visit Italian prisoners of war at a nearby military base, Rose and her vivacious best friend, Marie, join the group. There, Rose falls

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620. Rien Fertel, Part 2.

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2025/04/04

620. Part 2 of our conversation with Rien Fertel. “I’m a Louisiana-born and based writer and teacher. My most recent book, out September 2022, isBrown Pelican, a human history of the very best bird. I’ve penned three earlier books.The Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera, #133 in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, about a road trip based on a recent classic album about a road trip.The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog,a personal/historical reflection on race,

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619. Rien Fertel, Part 1.

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2025/03/29

619. Part 1 of our interview with Rien Fertel. “I’m a Louisiana-born and based writer and teacher. My most recent book, out September 2022, is Brown Pelican, a human history of the very best bird. I’ve penned three earlier books. The Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera, #133 in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, about a road trip based on a recent classic album about a road trip. The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog, a

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618. Shannon Eaves, Part 2

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2025/03/22

Part 2 of ourinterviewwith Shannon Eaves. "Her book,Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South, was published by UNC Press in 2024. This study examines how the rape and sexual exploitation of enslaved women created a rape culture that was woven into the very fabric of antebellum society, influencing daily life for both the enslaved and enslavers....Shannon earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently serves as an

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617. Shannon Eaves, Part 1

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2025/03/15

617. Part 1 of our interview with Shannon Eaves. "Her book, Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South, was published by UNC Press in 2024. This study examines how the rape and sexual exploitation of enslaved women created a rape culture that was woven into the very fabric of antebellum society, influencing daily life for both the enslaved and enslavers.... Shannon earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently

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616. Ed Branley, Part 2

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2025/03/07

616. Part 2 of Ed Branley's return to the podcast. This time the NOLA history guy talks to the most NOLA topic of them all— Mardi Gras! Ed traces Carnival season and Mardi Gras from its humble beginnings to now Ed is a writer, teacher, historian, and computer nerd who lives in New Orleans. He graduated from the real Brother Martin High School. Edward dated several girls who attended the real St. Mary's Dominican High School, eventually marrying one of them. Now available: Liberty in

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615. Ed Branley, part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/02/28

615. Part 1 of Ed Branley's return to the podcast. This time the NOLA history guy talks to the most NOLA topic of them all--Mardi Gras! Ed traces Carnival season and Mardi Gras from its humble beginnings to now Ed is a writer, teacher, historian, and computer nerd who lives in New Orleans. He graduated from the real Brother Martin High School. Edward dated several girls who attended the real St. Mary's Dominican High School, eventually marrying one of them.Now available: Liberty in

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614. Ana Croegaert, Part 2

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2025/02/22

614. Part 2 of out chat with Ana Croegaert about the removalof Confederate monuments. We also talked to her about her participation in second line parades around the city. “In 2017, the City of New Orleans removed four segregation-era monuments celebrating the Southern Confederacy and valorizing white supremacist ideology. As in other cities, efforts to remove such monuments are not new, and historically have been connected to collective

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613. Ana Croegaert, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/02/15

613 Part 1 of out chat with Ana Croegaert about the removal of Confederate monuments. We also talked to her about her participation in second line parades around the city. “In 2017, the City of New Orleans removed four segregation-era monuments celebrating the Southern Confederacy and valorizing white supremacist ideology. As in other cities, efforts to remove such monuments are not new, and historically have been connected to collective challenges to racialized inequality, and more recently to

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612. Carlis Wright Robinson, Part 2

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2025/02/08

612. Part 2 of our conversation with Carlis Wright Robinson. Inresponse to racial segregation in Major League Baseball, African American players and officials formed their own league, titled, The Negro Leagues. Despite not playing in Major League Baseball, Wright, like countless other African Americans in baseball at that time, by their mere presence and participation in baseball at that time in America, rejected racism and served as pioneers

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611. Carlis Wright Robinson, part 1

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2025/02/01

611. Part 1 of our conversation with Carlis Wright Robinson about her father's, Johnny Wright's, baseball career. Inresponse to racial segregation in Major League Baseball, African American players and officials formed their own league, called The Negro League. Despite not playing in Major League Baseball, Wright, like countless other African Americans in baseball at that time, by their mere presence and participation in baseball at that time in America,

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610. Dean Snow on David Ingram

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2025/01/25

610. Join us this week as David Snow tells us about English traveler DavidIngram. "In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, author Dean Snow rights the record on a shipwrecked sailor who traversed the length of the North American continent only to be maligned as deceitful storyteller. In the autumn of 1569, a French ship rescued David Ingram and two other English sailors from the shore of the Gulf of Maine. The men had walked over 3000

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609. David Armand, Part 2

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2025/01/17

609. Part 2 of our visit with author David Armond. Armand is the 2022 recipient of the Louisiana Writer Award, presented annually by the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana. He is the twenty-third recipient of the prestigious award presented to recognize outstanding contributions to Louisiana’s literary and intellectual life exemplified by a contemporary Louisiana writer’s body of work. He is a prolific writer in several genres: memoir, novels, and poetry. His memoirs are

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608. David Armand, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/01/10

608. Part 1 of our 2nd interview with David Armond, winner of the 2022 Louisiana Writer Award. He has written the memoir titles: My Mother’s House & Mirrors. He has published four novels, The Pugilist's Wife, Harlow, The Gorge, and The Lord's Acre. He has also published three collections of poems, The Deep Woods, Debt, and The Evangelist. From 2017-2019, he served as Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he is currently assistant professor of creative writing. His

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607. Rain Gomez, D. G. Barthe, & Andrew Jolivette,...

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2025/01/04

607. Part 2 of our conversation with RainPrud'homme-Cranford (Rain C. Goméz) & her friends D. G. Barthe and Andrew Jolivette visit this week. Louisiana Creole Peoplehood is the book they collaborated on. “Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing

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606. Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, part 1

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2024/12/28

606. Part 1 of Rain Prud’homme-Cranford (Rain C. Goméz) & her friends D. G. Barthe and Andrew Jolivette's visit to our porch this week. Louisiana Creole Peoplehoodis the book they collaborated on. “Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine

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605. Derby Gisclair, part 2. Baseball.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/12/21

605. Part 2. Derby Gisclair returns to discuss the history of baseball in New Orleans. Derby is an expert on the topic, having written the following books:Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play. The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans: A Moment in Minor League History: Shoeless Joe Jackson and the New Orleans Pelicans Championship. The Dixie Series: 1920 - 1958. In July of 1859, seventy-five young New Orleanians came together to form the seven teams that

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604. Derby Gisclair

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/12/14

604. Part 1. Derby Gisclair returns to discuss the history of baseball in New Orleans. Derby is an expert on the topic, having written the following books:Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play. The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans: A Moment in Minor League History: Shoeless Joe Jackson and the New Orleans Pelicans Championship. The Dixie Series: 1920 - 1958. In July of 1859, seventy-five young New Orleanians came together to

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603. Lenore Weiss.

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2024/12/07

603. We chat with Lenore Weiss about her novel,Pulp into Paper, which“is about the struggle of Arkansas and Louisiana mill workers to tell the truth about what is happening in their work and personal lives. The book mirrors the choices we make between earning a living and our ethical values, but is sympathetic to all characters on either side of the environmental divide.” Pulp into Paper is an engaging, disturbing and sometimes humorous novel exposing a calcified network of corruption between

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