Kaley Cuoco knew she wanted to turn Chris Bohjalian’s bestselling novel “The Flight Attendant” into a TV series when the book caught her eye online.
November was a month of heavy topics for my three book clubs. But a light read found on a list of “15 feel-good books guaranteed to lift your …
BERLIN (AP) — German media giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon & Schuster in a m…
LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University launched an appeal Tuesday to find two valuable notebooks written by Charles Darwin after they were reporte…
NEW YORK (AP) — Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who in middle age became a pioneer of the …
The Missouri History Museum remains open, but the historical society is temporarily closing its research center at 225 S. Skinker Boulevard.
St. Charles City-County Library will temporarily close its buildings to patrons and shift to curbside delivery due to the rise in coronavirus …
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Jessica Baran of St. Louis has received an Andy Warhol Foundation grant of $30,000 for her short-form writing.
LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for “Shuggie Bain,” a novel about a boy’s turbulent com…
Reading Barack Obama’s deeply introspective and at times elegiac new presidential memoir, I thought often about something the writer James Bal…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo will serve a third, one-year term and has launched an online project that celebrates Native Ameri…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, put…
The longtime news anchor at KTVI (Channel 2) and radio host has put out his first work of fiction, titled "A Wink and a Nod."
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The parade of new paperbacks never ends. Freshly printed offerings include three novels, two biographies and one essay collection.
Writer Steve Wiegenstein demonstrates the breadth of his talent in "Scattered Lights."
Richard Burgin, a writer, literary editor and retired English professor, died in his book-filled Clayton home Oct. 22 after a long battle with…
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the top chroniclers of the Trump administration, New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman, has a book deal.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Chanel Miller is among the winners of a prestigious book award for her soul-bearing memoir, where she reclaims her identit…
Longtime host at KMOX (1120 AM) and ringleader of KETC (Channel 9) public affairs show "Donnybrook," Brennan's book is titled "Only in St. Louis!"
The St. Charles City-County Library has announced two branch closures in the last two days.
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Writer John Connolly already has to his credit 19 thrillers starring New York private eye Charlie Parker. Now, with “The Dirty South,” Connoll…
Although Lee Child is listed as co-author of “The Sentinel,” the 25th thriller in the Jack Reacher series, the book was largely written by his…
Carl Hiaasen’s hilarious new political satire, which takes place post-pandemic, and “Pull of the Stars,” set during a long-ago pandemic, highl…
“Memorial,” by Bryan Washington, follows the complex relationship between Benson, a Black day care teacher, and Mike, a Japanese American chef.
Two of the “cold millions,” American underclass nobodies putting their sweat and blood into building the nation, are about to be swept into an…
In a post saying "we're struggling," Left Bank Books asks customers for orders, even donations, as sales have been less than half of what they…
Nancy Carver has written about Churchill's visit in 1946 to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where he gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech.
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