Margaret Atwood on technology, cloaks, and literary slow-cooking
Atwood, who will be at The Sheldon on September 19 to accept the St. Louis Literary Award, talks to us about "Handmaid's Tale," the Future Library, and why reading your own book is "like making your...
View ArticleBookFest aims to be the premier book event in St. Louis for years to come
Headlined by Sherman Alexie, the first-ever BookFest will offer something for every kind of reader, from poets to murder-mystery aficionados.
View ArticleSt. Louis Jewish Book Festival announces its keynote speakers: Zac Posen and...
Confirmed authors also include novelists Alice Hoffman and Hallie Ephron.
View ArticleAl Franken on his new book, "Giant of the Senate"
"I had always threatened to myself to write about this. I had my laptop and I started writing and I thought, "This could turn out like 'The Shining,' or it could be productive and fun."
View ArticleGuess who's coming to Left Bank Books? Al Franken, that's who
We're one of his stops on the book tour for "Giant of the Senate."
View ArticleA new collection chronicles Lenora Carrington's 94 years of adventure
Born into a wealthy British family, Carrington ran away with Max Ernst as a teenager and joined the circle of Surrealists as an artist, not a girlfriend, refusing to be anyone’s muse.
View ArticleThe real Prufrock behind T.S. Eliot’s famous poem
One hundred years ago, Eliot published "Prufrock and Other Observations." The name lives on in two places: the poem, and Bellefontaine Cemetery.
View ArticleSt. Louis makes a vivid appearance in Patricia Lockwood's new memoir...
The work's title alludes to the fact that the author’s father is, indeed, a married Catholic priest with kids.
View ArticleThis is why you absolutely need to get yourself to Joe's Cafe tonight
Because this is happening: "No Hard Feelings: a night of Poetry & Jazz," with poet David Clewell, reeds player Paul DeMarinis, and pianist Kim Portnoy.
View ArticleRead This Now: Lost Treasures of St. Louis
Cameron Collins, the witty, thoughtful force behind Distilled History, “a drinking blog with a history problem," has written a book.
View ArticleBecoming Yourself: A conversation with Anna Quindlen
Washington University’s Commencement speaker talks about the importance of kindness, the uses of eavesdropping, and the joy of just not giving a damn
View ArticleRead This Now: "Common Sense" by Jessica Baran
Baran's new collection begins with a stunner of a first line: “It’s hard to make sense while plummeting.”
View ArticleSt. Louis’ favorite outdoor bookfair is...headed indoors
The Greater St. Book Fair has a new home at the Greenfelder Recreation Complex in Queeny Park.
View ArticleDavid Linzee on "One Fell Swoop," his second mystery set in St. Louis
The heroine, Renata Radleigh, is an opera singer, and in this book, her shallow, maddening brother has again gotten himself into a mess.
View ArticleSt. Louis native Jerry Meyer writes about the hidden history of World War I...
The book shatters one myth after another, mapping Woodrow Wilson’s arrogance and inability to compromise as it describes how he led the U.S. into the war—and with what consequences.
View ArticleBeach reads to check out this summer
We asked Jennifer McBride of the St. Louis County Library and Jen Hatton of the St. Louis Public Library for their lists of most-anticipated books for summer 2017.
View ArticleAfter exploring the past in his bestselling memoir, Bettyville, writer George...
George Hodgman abandoned New York's literary scene to care for his mother in rural Missouri. The story of those years won him unexpected fame. Now it’s time to reinvent himself again.
View ArticleRead This Now: The Aerial Crossroads of America: St. Louis’s Lambert Airport
Daniel Rust, like all good historians, shakes us awake to show us the magic hidden in something that’s become mundane.
View ArticleA conversation with mystery novelist Deborah Crombie
Crombie joins Charles Todd (both of them) at the St. Louis County Library’s celebration of British suspense.
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