08.10.2009 12:43 pm

Barnes & Noble buying college stores

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

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…

01.25.2009 11:48 am

St. Louis poet a finalist for book critics award

Post-Dispatch Book Editor

Devin Johnston, a professor at St. Louis University, was named on Saturday night a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award in poetry.

Johnston’s book, “Sources,” was published last fall by Turtle Point Press. A professor of English, he also is…