“YA is where it’s at,” says Heather Brewer, author of “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.”

The 35-year-old resident of Maryland Heights just released the third book in the vampire series for young adults. She’ll be doing three events in the next…

New Kids on the Block

As part of the group’s Let’s Get This Foundation, the band New Kids on the Block collects new books for ages preschool to about third grade. In St. Louis last night (July 1) for a concert, it…

There were enough wizard rock bands in 2007 for MTV to create a Top 10 list. Two of those wrock bands, the Remus Lupins and the Whomping Willows, will be in St. Louis Friday (July 3) celebrating the movie release…

A federal judge in New York has blocked publication in the U.S. of a book claiming to be a sequel to J.D. Salinger’s famous “The Catcher in the Rye.”

Here’s the word from the Associated Press:

“U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts issued…

    When I was a kid, I felt terribly embarrassed if I had a library fine - as if I’d stolen something or intentionally refused to take the book back to the library or bookmobile. Librarians had a reputation for being…

Can a person purposefully shoot himself, die - and yet not be considered a suicide?

That seems to be what’s suggested in “Meriwether Lewis” by two independent historians, Thomas C. Danisi of St. Louis and John C. Jackson of Washington state. 

Retired history professor, author and…

Missouri’s favorite author may have died a century ago, but he’ll be honored by community book groups in the next few months.

Five Missouri groups will receive government money to participate in Big Read events, the NEA announced Tuesday (June 23). Two in…

Kurt and Brenda Warner will be in St. Louis July 6 to sign copies of their book, “First Things First.”

The book, which carries the same name as their nonprofit, Christian foundation, will be about their marriage, “the values they are…

Claire Applewhite, author of “The Wrong Side of Memphis,” recently posed some questions to Janet Grace Riehl. Riehl is the author of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary,” a self-published book of story poems, many of which center on her family. 

Riehl graduated from Alton…