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06.23.2009 6:08 pm

‘Tom Sawyer’ on tap for two area Big Reads

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

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…

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04.28.2009 2:32 pm

SLUH student makes national Poetry Out Loud finals

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Peter Winfrey, a senior at St. Louis University High School, is one of 12 finalists at the national Poetry Out Loud event tonight (Tuesday) in Washington, D.C.

In a telephone interview on Tuesday, he said that when performing he tries “to…

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01.12.2009 11:34 am

Great news: study shows more people reading

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

As theater critic Judith Newmark reported Sunday in her story about the opening of the stage version of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the National Endowment for the Arts has good news about reading: More people are reading literature.

 The NEA officially released its report…

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