Book Blog

Is ‘New Moon’ faithful to book?

Jane Henderson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:07:15 +0000

Taylor Lautner

I’ve overheard teen-agers in my backseat having more intelligent conversation than you hear in two hours of “New Moon.” And if they were as depressed as Bella and Edward, I would send them to the emergency room, not Florida (as…

Karl Rove’s memoir goes on sale in March

Jane Henderson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:54:00 +0000

David Plouffe, President Obama’s campaign manager, is in St. Louis Friday for “The Audacity to Win.” Wonder if Karl Rove, credited with George W. Bush’s “ascendency,” will book St. Louis on a tour next year? Here’s news of his book…

National Book Award winners

Jane Henderson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:35:33 +0000

Washington University’s Carl Phillips didn’t win a National Book Award this year for his poetry collection “Speak Low.” But it must have been an interesting night in New York for the finalist, anyway, with special awards going to Gore Vidal…

Getting started on writing own book

Jane Henderson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:10:53 +0000

Under an October post, a commenter just asked how to get started writing his own book. I posted a comment there that I’m going to repeat here because it’s a bit buried in the blog now.

Tom, you might try, first,…

Obama campaign manager on Palin, books

Jane Henderson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:10:48 +0000

David Plouffe, the campaign manager who gets a lot of the credit for putting Barack Obama in the White House, is on a victory lap book tour for “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s…

Take STL quiz on Pioneer Woman site

Jane Henderson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:36:29 +0000

If ya’ll hurry, you might be able to nail the St. Louis quiz at The Pioneer Woman website. It’s open till 6 p.m.

Ree Drummond drew about 600 people last night to her book signing at Christ Church Cathedral, said Danielle Borsch…

STL translator working on Nobel speech

Jane Henderson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:14:31 +0000

When Herta Müller won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, I jokingly asked her translator whether he felt just a little like he’d won too.

“No,” said Philip Boehm, who lives in University City. But hey, now he’s translating her Nobel acceptance…

South St. Louis native writes personal essays

Jane Henderson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:33:45 +0000

Toriano Porter, the assistant sports editor at The Examiner in Independence, Mo., has written and self-published a book called “The Pride of Park Avenue.”

Apparently this Park Avenue isn’t the ritzy place in New York but the sometimes sketchy fairway that runs east and…

No press for Palin’s Missouri speech next month

Amanda St. Amand — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:02:48 +0000

When former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at the College of the Ozarks next month, the media are not invited.

A spokeswoman for the school says keeping the media out was part of Palin’s contract for her Dec. 2 speech.

Palin…

Pioneer Woman’s fans can meet her tonight

Jane Henderson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:17:00 +0000

Ree Drummond has found herself a sweet gig. A couple of them, in fact.

She’s styled herself as The Pioneer Woman in a blog that draws millions of hits (most, we figure, are from women) who appreciate her colorful pictures and posts…