The annual outdoor book festival The Big Read will be in Clayton on Oct. 11. Students who want to enter the annual writing contest, The Big Write, might want to use the dog days of summer, of course, to work…
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Loading ...The Washington Post recently printed a piece by publisher Jonathan Karp about how book publishers are heading in the wrong direction by printing too much junk too quickly. He starts off his commentary by noting that most authors want to…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The National Book Foundation has a terrific list of celebrity authors and the books they say changed their life.
Here are some of the titles:
Laurie Halse Anderson, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Mark Bowden, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...David Maraniss, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his Washington Post reporting on Bill Clinton, will be in St. Louis this week to discuss his new book.
“Rome 1960″ is about that year’s Olympic games, which included not only…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ridley Pearson never seems to stop writing. If I were him I’d be taking it easy in Sun Valley, but he’s just about to come back to his other home, here in St. Louis, as part of a book tour…
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...The other day I was driving down a leafy neighborhood street just off of South Grand Boulevard and I saw a falcon sitting on a fire hydrant.
It still is a thrill for me to spot birds of prey in the…
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...John J. Dunphy has written a terrific, easy-to-understand primer on what makes a haiku. At least it’s fairly easy to understand….. What do you think?
What Is a Haiku and What Isn’t?
By John J. Dunphy
Godfrey, Ill., haiku poet
www.johndunphy.com
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(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...I’ve gotten several good responses to the stories that ran Sunday about Harper Barnes’ new book, “Never Been a Time.” See Books page for stories.
A couple of readers had small nits to pick. One caller said I should have explained…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Missouri’s first poet laureate, Walter Bargen of Ashland, will read from his work and speak about “the power of silence” at 11 a.m. Sunday, June 29, at the Ethical Society, 9001 Clayton Road.
Bargen has a new book coming out, “Theban…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Valgard Jonsson, a Post-Dispatch reader, picked up a copy of Leif Enger’s new book, “So Brave, Young and Handsome.” He also went to see Enger at the St. Louis County Library headquarters. Although Jonsson was a bit disappointed with the book,…
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