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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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651. Skye Jackson

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/11/07

651. This week we talk to Skye Jackson about her poetry. Skye was born and raised in NewOrleans, Louisiana. She writes about love, femininity and the challenges of navigating our modern world as a young Black woman. Her work has appeared in Palette Poetry, The Southern Review, RHINO, RATTLE and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook A Faster Grave (2019) and her debut collection of poetry, Libre, which was recently published by Regalo Press and

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650. Nathalie Dessens.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/11/01

650. Nathalie Dessens is returning to herwork on Gentilly and Creole New Orleans through the recent publication of Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818-1851 (a book she co-edited and translated with Virginia Meacham Gould. It features letters from the manager of the Gentilly plantation, providing insight into 19th-century plantation life and its connection to the city. Dessens is a historian who has previously written

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649. Leah Payne

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/10/24

649. This week we chat with Leah Payne about her book,God Gave Rock and RollTo You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music. We focus especially on the role of the family of Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Mickey Gilley in the history of Rock and Roll. Her book chronicles the confluence of evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic networks through the lens of Contemporary Christian Music, or CCM. The book indexes American evangelicalism’s political and

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648. Mike and Mark Mangham. Twin Blends.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/10/17

648. This week, we talk with Mike and Mark Mangumabout their creative venture, Twin Blends. They research local Shreveport and Bossier history The brothers join us to discuss the project’s origins, how they combine their individual styles into a unified final piece, and what it takes to manage a shared brand. Learn more about the Mangums’ work and the inspiration behind Twin Blends. Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy.

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647. Brad Dison. "The Trap."

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/10/10

647. We talk to Brad Dison about his book,The Trap, about the deathof Bonnie and Clyde. "For far too long, Sheriff Henderson Jordan's role in ending the crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde has been overlooked or ignored. On the rare occasion that he is portrayed in films or documentaries, he is depicted as an insignificant character. Since 1934, we have accepted the notion that Frank Hamer located the outlaws and led the ambush against them

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646. Thomas Smith

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/10/04

646. We talk to Dr. Thomas Smith about his series of Red String novels, set in 19thcentury Mississippi River and Central Louisiana. His first novel in the series is Just a Piece of Red String: Antebellum Voodoo and Vengeance. In antebellum Natchez, Mississippi, and the bustling city of New Orleans, cousins Sawyer Dundee and Solomon Witcher come into manhood, each charting a dramatically different course. While Sawyer remains in Natchez to run the family business, the charismatic Solomon

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645 David Ballantyne, Part 2.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/09/26

645. Part 2 of our interview with David Ballantyne about postCivil-War Reconstruction of the Red River Valley. He has given the history on the area in his book,Fractured Freedoms: Reconstruction in Central Louisiana. “Fractured Freedoms is a riveting history of central Louisiana from the 1860s to the 1890s, focusing on majority-Black Rapides Parish during Reconstruction. Using the region as a case study, Ballantyne reveals what is, in part, a rural

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644. David T. Ballantyne, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/09/22

644. Part 1 of our interview with David T. Ballantyne about his book,Fractured Freedoms: Reconstruction in Central Louisiana. "Fractured Freedoms is a riveting history of central Louisiana from the 1860s to the 1890s, focusing on majority-Black Rapides Parish during Reconstruction. Using the region as a case study, Ballantyne reveals what is, in part, a rural Reconstruction success story, emphasizing the resilience of Black politics and the persistence of significant divisions among

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643. Roxanne Harde, Part 2.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/09/13

643. Part 2 of our conversation with Roxanne Harde about the Treméseries. Roxanne Harde on the Tremé series. "Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this hour-long drama series, from executive producers David Simon and Eric Overmyer, follows the lives of ordinary residents as they struggle with the after-effects of the 2005 hurricane. Says star and New Orleans native Wendell Pierce, 'The only things people had to hang on

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642. Roxanne Harde, Part 1.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/09/05

642. Part 1 of our conversation with Roxanne Harde about the Tremételevision series. "Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this hourlong drama series, from executive producers David Simon and Eric Overmyer, follows the lives of ordinary residents as they struggle with the aftereffects of the 2005 hurricane. Says star and New Orleans native Wendell Pierce, 'The only things people had to hang on to were the rich traditions we knew that survived the test of time before: our music, food and family,

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641. Josh Neufeld, Part 2

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/08/30

Part2 of our conversation with Josh Neufeld about his non-fiction graphic novel, A. D. After the Deluge. “A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurricane Katrina in the true stories of six New Orleanians who survived the storm. A.D. follows each of the six from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath. Here is Denise, a sixth-generation New Orleanian who will

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640. Josh Neufeld, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/08/23

640. Bruce's son Kerr joins us for part 1 of our conversation with JoshNeufeld about his non-fiction graphic novel, A. D. After the Deluge. “A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurricane Katrina in the true stories of six New Orleanians who survived the storm. A.D. follows each of the six from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath. Here is Denise, a sixth-generation

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639. Lori Peek, Part 2

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/08/15

639. Part 2 of our interview with Lori Peek about her book,The Continuing Storm, which she wrote with Kai Erikson. More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our

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638. Lori Peek, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/08/08

638. Part 1 of our interview with Lori Peek about her book, The Continuing Storm, which she wrote with Kai Erikson. More than fifteen years later,Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national

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637. Kiona Walker LeMalle

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/08/01

637. It's been 20 years this month since Hurricane Katrina, and we're marking the anniversary this August and September. Today, we talk to Kiona Walker LeMalle about her Katrina-themed novel,Behind the Waterline. The novel takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen, in this novel that mixes magical realism with

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636. Frank Perez. *CORRECTED*

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/07/29

636. We talk to Frank Perez about the place of LGBTQ+ people in New Orleans history. “Want to learn about New Orleans’ richand vibrant LGBT+ history? I can help with that! It has been my pleasure for the last several years to not only preserve and document that history, but also to be a small part of it. I’ve written several books and hundreds of articles on local queer history and I’m proud to be a co-founder of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. In addition, I also founded and love

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636. Frank Perez.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/07/25

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635. Kyle Crosby, Part 2

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/07/19

635. Part 2of our talk with Kyle Crosby about his project,Louisiana Dread. "Louisiana Dread is a cultural project that shares and preserves stories of Louisiana history, culture, and folklore. Under the umbrella of Dreadful Productions, LLC, "Louisiana Dread" aims to bring awareness to important cultural aspects of Louisiana through several online series, such as LA Quick History, LA Drinks, LA Estates, LA Lingo, and LD Live. Each

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634. Kyle Crosby, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/07/12

634. Part 1 of our talk with Kyle Crosby about his project,Louisiana Dread. "Louisiana Dread is a cultural project that shares andpreserves stories of Louisiana history, culture, and folklore. Under the umbrella of Dreadful Productions, LLC, "Louisiana Dread" aims to bring awareness to important cultural aspects of Louisiana through several online series, such as LA Quick History, LA Drinks, LA Estates, LA Lingo, and LD Live. Each highlight in

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633. Heidi Kim

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/07/06

633. We talk to Heidi Kim about her research into the novel,Vieux Salomon. "Set in Guadeloupe, New Orleans, the surrounding Louisiana plantations, and briefly in other areas of the South, this is a key text of the history of slavery in Louisiana and the Deep South. There is obviously a difference between memoirs and novels in terms of perception and claims to nonfiction. However, in U.S. antislavery literature, both usually attempted to appeal to the same white mainstream readership (with the

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