A Conversation With Jeanette Winterson
Winterson, one of the most brilliant writers of her generation, visits SLU September 23 to accept the St. Louis Literary Award. She spoke with us by email about wildness, tameness, adoption, and loving...
View ArticleBabe & Priscilla
Both born into slavery, they opened brothels that made musical history and set a precedent for the red-lit windows of Amsterdam.
View ArticleScratching the Underbelly: Tim Lane’s "The Lonesome Go"
"The Lonesome Go," is St. Louis-based graphic novelist Tim Lane's 296-page gathering of comic strips, diary entries, dreams, digressions and other form-lets, all executed in in his distinctive noir style.
View ArticleLit in the Lou Brings All Things Literary to U. City This Weekend
St. Louis has a new book festival! And it starts tonight with a cocktail party.
View ArticleThe Arts: Belles Lettres
Until she sold her jewelry business in 2007 (at the age of 80), Anne Dick was still designing pieces for fine-art and museum shops all over the country. She writes poetry...
View ArticleQ&A: A Conversation With Andy Cohen
In 2012, Andy Cohen wrote about his journey from TV-addicted Clayton teenager to Bravo exec in his memoir Most Talkative. This month, he releases The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year...
View ArticleWilliam Least Heat-Moon's New Memoir Revisits His Classic Book "Blue Highways"
Heat-Moon’s new book, "Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happened," lets readers relive his journey, but from a new, contemplative perspective.
View ArticleThe Novel Neighbor: Webster Groves' Newest Bookstore (and Art Gallery,...
The brainchild of Holland Saltsman, Webster Groves resident, mother, wife, and local business advocate, The Novel Neighbor envisions itself as a versatile enterprise—a bookstore that celebrates books,...
View ArticleSt. Louis Books to Wrap and Give
St. Louis is lousy with writers...who are anything but lousy. There are also lots of great local bookstores in which you can pick up their works as you are tooling around, ticking off those final names...
View ArticleListmaker: Local Books to Read Now
Our roundup this January: Two poetry from local poets and two brilliant fiction titles from a local press.
View ArticleTalking to Dean Klinkenberg About His New Novel, "Rock Island Lines"
We caught up with the writer earlier this week; he'll read from his new novel, a mystery set in the Quad Cities, this Wednesday at the Schlafly Tap Room.
View ArticleStar Clipper is St. Louis’ Latest Culture Retailer Casualty
This morning, Benjamin and A.J. Trujillo, the owners of University City’s popular comics-and-ephemera shop Star Clipper, will inform their patrons that the store is closing, with a liquidation sale...
View ArticleIrish American Writers & Artists Association Brings Poetry, Music, and More...
The Irish American Writers & Artists Association is coming to St. Louis. John Kearns, the host of the bi-monthly New York salons will be the night’s emcee.
View ArticleLucy Ferriss Brings a Complex New Novel Home to St. Louis
She weaves a fresh collegiate romance, family drama, Pashtun honor killings, and cultural blindness into an unforgettable love story. And she’ll be signing copies at Left Bank Books tomorrow.
View ArticleRead the Poem that Michael Castro Performed For His Inauguration as St....
Last Saturday, the City of St. Louis held an official coronation ceremony honoring our new (and first!) poet laureate, Michael Castro. Here's the poem he performed—and yes, if you know Castro, you know...
View ArticleRead These Now: Three Local-Interest Books for March
A book from a visiting poet, a smart St. Louis coffee table book, and a new one from best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini.
View ArticleThe City Lyrical: Michael Castro, St. Louis’ First Poet Laureate
Meet St. Louis new—and very first!—poet laureate.
View ArticleRead These Now: A Book List for April
Michael Castro, How Things Stack Up (Singing Bone, 2014): Castro’s 15th collection is packed with new poems, as well as such classics as “The Man Who Looked into Coltrane’s Horn.” It also includes his...
View ArticleTimes Beach: A Confluence of Voices
John Shoptaw, a poet and professor at Berkeley, has written a book of poems that is as intricate and profound as the Mississippi River with its history, tributaries and deltas.
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