Keagan LeJeune Explores the Cajun Beauty of “Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana”

Just like this place, LeJeune offers no easy answers. Louisiana doesn’t define you. And you definitely don’t define it. There is only ever the scenic byway, where the bayou connects, or the high ground of the next chenier.

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Wanderlust, Reinvention and Authenticity in “With Hawks and Angels”

Joel Lafayette Fletcher III recounts his adventures finding himself as a gay man in a time when it could get him killed in this memoir.

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Examining the Art of the Short Story in “Arranging Stories”

Heather A. Fox examines how white women writers in the South ordered their short story collections to say something about historical events, society or politics in the midst of a racist and male-dominated publishing era.

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