About New Seasons

New Seasons is a collection of Wiley Hilburn's columns written for The Monroe News-Star and The Times (of Shreveport) over the last fifteen years. Hilburn's first book from his weekly column, Fragments, introduced us to the North Louisiana of our childhood, took us down country lanes, and conjured up the seasons and lost time. Copies of his now sold-out book found their way to bedside tables, Christmas stockings, and the floor board of many a North Louisiana pickup truck.

In this book, he continues to delight us with his wry humor and keen insight into North Louisiana life, love, stray dogs, weather and the social order at the Huddle House.

If this is a new season in the life and times of Wiley Hilburn, then this collection is its journal. So read on -- and welcome to North Louisiana -- with its unique people, places, folk history and family experiences -- as it could only be revealed by the adventures and imagination of its most enthusiastic resident.

ISBN 0-9762688-052495
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004114564
printed in the United States of America
© 2004 Jack Dog Press All rights reserved
New Seasons contains 224 pages in a hardbound edition

About the Author

Wiley Hilburn has spent most of his life living in and writing about the people and places of the piney woods of North Louisiana. For the past 37 years, he has headed the Journalism Department at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. His former students can be found working in almost every major publication in the United States at one time or another.

For the last 25 years, Wiley Hilburn has written a popular weekly column in The Times (of Shreveport), and in the last few years, in both The Times and The Monroe News-Star. He has also served on the editorial staff of The Times and continues to contribute editorials. He is one of only two journalists who have been inducted into the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame. Hilburn lives with his wife, Kate, a photographer, in Choudrant, Louisiana, along with their three dogs -- Jack, Girlfriend, and Boo Radley.