Observable Readings Kicks Off its Eleventh Season With New Curators, and a...
Poet Aaron Belz founded Observable Readings in 2003. He continued to run the program until he moved from the area about five years later. At that time, the St. Louis Poetry Center took over, and ...
View ArticleFourth Season of 2nd Friday Notes Poetry Series Opens Tomorrow at Whole Foods...
The St. Louis Poetry Center’s 2nd Friday Notes series will begin its fourth season on Friday, September 13 at 7 p.m. in the café at Whole Foods Market in Town and Country. As the name suggests, Who...
View ArticleThe Biggest Poetry Reading in the World: 100,000 Poets For Change Comes to...
Every year, on September 28, poets all over the country—and all over the world, from Albania to Wales—gather for marathon readings. (They let in a musician or three as well.) The event, 100,000 Po...
View ArticleA Conversation With Novelist Daniel Woodrell
Missouri author Daniel Woodrell will make an appearance at the St. Louis County Library (1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.) on September 30 at 7 p.m. for a discussion and signing of his newest novel, The ...
View ArticleTalking to Richard Burgin About His Latest Short Story Collection, “Hide Island”
We were in a Starbucks, seated near a window, ignoring customers rushing in for their morning coffee, attempting to ignore the machines loudly grinding out the steaming beverages, tuning out the mu...
View ArticlePreviews: "Fantasia," at Powell, Literary Luminaries at the Jewish Book Fest
There’s something about those whales flying through the air in the film Fantasia 2000 , says St. Louis Resident Conductor Steven Jarvi. “I would have never have set [Respighi’s] Pines of Rome ...
View ArticleTalking to Amber Dover and Steven Hoffmann of The Archive Bookstore (Which...
Earlier this year, The Archive began to run a series of standing sales off of sales. This was concerning news for regular shoppers, as the store, located in South City at the intersection of Jeff...
View ArticleTalking to the Creators of "A Beginner’s Guide to Interplanetary Destruction"
As intriguing pitch letters go, Adam Baugher hit the mark when selling a story idea about A Beginner’s Guide to Interplanetary Destruction . Wrote Baugher, “It's a podcast, or an audio play to be ...
View ArticleTalking to Writer and St. Louis Expat Melinda Roth About Her New Book,...
A quick note of disclosure and background: in the 1990s, Melinda Roth covered the politics and government beat for The Riverfront Times . For a bit, we shared a two-person cube, after the paper’s ...
View ArticleThe Book House, Redux: A Survivor's Tale
Like an alchemical transformation right out of the pages of a Harry Potter novel, The Book House has seemingly died and been reborn, and the new space is, well, glorious. The community mourne...
View ArticleSt. Louis Poetry Center Celebrates Dylan Thomas for National Poetry Month
This Sunday at Dressel’s Public House (419 N. Euclid), the St. Louis Poetry Center will host a benefit reading from 4 to 7 p.m. The evening will celebrate the centennial of poet Dylan Thomas with w...
View ArticlePOW! A Comic Book Store is Born
Excalibur Comics in Maryland Heights; Comic Relief Again in Ballwin; All-Around Collectibles in Overland; Bug’s Comics in Florissant; the Fantasy Shop in Kirkwood; Legends in Southampton; Hometown ...
View ArticleSt. Louis-Born Poet and Literary Legend Maya Angelou Dies at 86
We are so sad to hear the news that St. Louis-born poet and memoirist, Maya Angelou, has passed away at the age of 86. Angelou was known for her lively, lyrical writing, including the memoir I Kno...
View ArticleTalking to Traci Angel About Her New Book, “The Scars of Project 459: The...
Author Traci Angel tackles problems that few people are willing to openly to talk about in her new book, "The Scars of Project 459: The Environmental Story of Lake of the Ozarks."
View ArticleProtest Songs: Jonathan Lethem Talks Politics, Culture, and "Dissident Gardens"
Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel, "Dissident Gardens," is a sweeping multi-era examination of radical politics set against family drama. He'll be at the library this Friday to read from it; we chatted...
View ArticleSix Questions for Patricia Lockwood
Poet Aaron Belz asks six questions of fellow poet Patricia Lockwood, who'll be at Left Bank this Monday to read from her new book, "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals."
View ArticleIn the Cards: Julia Gordon-Bramer's "Fixed Stars Govern a Life"
Poet and Tarot-card reader Julia Gordon-Bramer’s new book explains why Sylvia Plath’s "Ariel" is not just about the poet’s own emotional turmoil; it's also a poetic journey through the 21 cards of the...
View ArticlePsst… We Got Books
Here’s a list of cool books published in the last year or so by local authors. If you’re the sort of freak or rebel who reads books, you might dig them.
View ArticleFirst Stop: Tavern of Fine Arts
Short story writer and Webster prof Murray Farish kicks off River Styx's fall 2014 series with a reading from his new book of short stories, "Inappropriate Behavior."
View ArticleTalking to “Orange is the New Black,” Author Piper Kerman About Her Upcoming...
Kerman, whose memoir inspired the TV series of the same name, is passionate about prisoner's rights and is using her new role on the red carpet to advocate for incarcerated women.
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