Serena Puang

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When Perfect Doesn't Add Up

Canwen Xu's novel "Boring Asian Female" hits home for those of us consumed by the admissions game.

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Serena Puang

23 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

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Meet Your Neighbors

Natalie Sue, the queen of the hot-mess girl-boss novel, returns with a soft place to land in a world of hurry.

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Serena Puang

17 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

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Artists And Mystery

Come together in Thao Thai's sophomore novel.

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Serena Puang

9 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

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Endings, Revisited

Rachel Aviv revisits her mother-daughter New Yorker pieces from mom's point of view

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Serena Puang

3 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

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Louisiana, Reimagined

Novelist Stephanie Soileau looks beyond the hurricane headlines, into the soul of climate change.

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Serena Puang

23 Jul 2026 · 2 min read

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After Happily-Ever-After

Priya Guns' novel "Hustle, Baby" follows a amily of Sri Lankan refugees struggling in Toronto in the aughts.

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Serena Puang

15 Jul 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Female Gaze

From behind the lens, in LSU Museum of Art's "ReVision."

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Serena Puang

30 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Monsters And Humanity

Emerge from the walls at the Gallery at the Manship.

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Serena Puang

30 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

With A Little Help From Dad

Improv 201 Boomerangs in Baton Rouge.

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Serena Puang

29 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Plantcestry

Participants discover the smell of roots at a Glassel Gallery workshop.

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Serena Puang

21 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

Baton Rouge

LGBTQ+ "EyeCons" of Louisiana

On display at Shell Gallery, where the pictured icons get some, not all, the attention they deserve.

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Serena Puang

21 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Missed Connection

Tia Williams' new novel takes off from an airplane ride encounter.

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Serena Puang

19 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Southern Art?

An LSU exhibit considers the question.

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Serena Puang

17 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Sushi Ninja Beginnings

Two teens offer a vision of the cover-band future.

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Serena Puang

15 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Much Ado About Modern Shakespeare

Presented with vim by one of Baton Rouge's new theater companies.

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Serena Puang

12 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

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Meet Barbara, Your New Best Friend

Daniel Lavery's latest book talks about the difficulties of forging modern day friendships — and gives lonely audiences a complex character to care about.

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Serena Puang

9 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

A Louisiana Western?

There were some elephants in the room during a screening of the new movie "Cowboy."

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Serena Puang

9 Jun 2026 · 2 min read

Baton Rouge

Lincoln Theater; Crawfish; Richard Pryor

All three of those things can be found drawn onto the literal walls of Baton Rouge's "Museum of Public Art."

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Serena Puang

5 Jun 2026 · 2 min read