Leibman
Barry Leibman, co-owner of Left Bank Books, will be leaving the bookstore and St. Louis next year.
Leibman says he and his wife, Caroline, plan to move to the Seattle area. He wants to try something new but doesn’t know what…
Eoin Colfer
Left Bank Books has released a stellar lineup of authors coming to St. Louis to discuss their books. Included are people from Sherman Alexie and Jonathan Lethem to Deepak Chopra and John Grogan. Not all of these events will be…
Barnes & Noble is buying hundreds of college stores, including one at Washington University’s medical school and one at St. Louis University.
Those stores already go by the B&N name but were privately owned by a company called Barnes & Noble…
Golf books are a stereotypical gift for Father’s Day. But if Dad doesn’t golf - or already has a bookcase full of pretty links pictures - there are plenty of other possibilities.
I asked St. Louis booksellers what they were suggesting for…
Update: Left Bank Books has restored phone service. Its number: 314-367-6731.
Left Bank Books has sent out an email alerting customers that its regular business phone is down. For the time being, if you want to call the bookstore, call 314-226-9530 (the secondary line…
Books about playing Walden - moving to the country, planting veggies, raising chickens - seem to be a mini-trend in publishing. It’s an appealing fantasy - I’ve told many friends that my next career will be raising goats, a prospect that’s…
Like to have a bookseller recommend a great beach read? Here’s a whole ‘nuther list to add to our summer book story that runs in print on Sunday (May 24). Most of these are fiction (shows where book lovers’ hearts lie,…
Jimmy Carter
Several hundred people are expected to come downtown today to get Jimmy Carter’s autograph. Left Bank Books has sold more than 700 copies of the former president’s most recent book, “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land.” Apparently…
Jimmy Carter will be in St. Louis Feb. 10 to sign his next book, “We Can 
Have Peace in the Holy Land.”
Those who remember the controversy over his 2006 title, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid,” may suspect that he’s consciously aiming for…
Left Bank Books, St. Louis’ oldest independent bookstore, hopes to open its downtown store on Dec. 10.
Although the space at 10th Street and Locust is still being painted, shelves have arrived, said co-owner Kris Kleindienst.
She had originally hoped to have the store open…
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