A book event featuring Ron Currie Jr., who was to appear at the City Museum tonight, has been cancelled.
The author of “Everything Matters!” is suffering health problems, Pudd’nhead Books owner Nikki Furrer said. It is unknown at the present time…
As the online book war continued today, local independent booksellers said it shouldn’t affect their profits much - but it’s not good for publishing overall.
Nikki Furrer of Pudd’nhead Books in Webster Groves said in an email:
”I know that price wars…
Carl Phillips
Washington University professor Carl Phillips is a poetry finalist for this year’s National Book Awards.
“Speak Low,” published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, is one of five titles in the poetry category, the National Book Foundation announced today. The awards…
St. Louis fared well when the rankings of the Most Literate Cities in America came out. But now the TheDailyBeast.com says we’re not so smart after all.
Last week, The Daily Beast posted a story that ranked St. Louis as 24th…
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has gone to Herta Müller, a Romanian who has written about living in an oppressive, communist society.
St. Louis has a surprising link to Müller’s work: Some of it has been translated by our town’s Philip…
Jennifer Weiner struck best-seller gold with her very first book, “Good in Bed.” It hit in 2001, during the chick lit craze, and made headlines because its heroine was, gasp!, a plump yet self-confident woman.
Weiner’s had eight best sellers since,…
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…
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…
Two used book sales this month will go toward good causes.
First:
The Chatillon-DeMenil House Foundation is having a sale May 16-17 at the mansion, DeMenil Place. They have a number of home-renovation books along with fiction, other nonfiction, cookbooks and more.
Most…
Previous entries
