The JCC is calling it a "pop-up book festival" this week, with events through Wednesday.
Reviews of “When the Stars Go Dark," “The Good Sister” and “The Lost Village.”
NEW YORK — The cover for Hillary Clinton's first novel will not be mistaken for those of her memoirs.
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” receives the St. Louis Literary Award an…
NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker-actor Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, brothers, former child stars and fellow Hollywood veterans, will now share …
"The Wild Silence" by Raynor Winn; Penguin Books (288 pages, $17) ——— Immediately upon finishing Raynor Winn's 2019 memoir, "The Salt Path," I…
Legal scholar Carolyn Cox looks into the spate of '30s kidnappings in "The Snatch Racket," subtitled "The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized …
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After two weeks of by-appointment hours at St. Louis County Library, it has announced upcoming evening hours.
NEW YORK (AP) — James McBride's latest honor for the novel “Deacon King Kong” is a real New York story.
Originally scheduled for December 2020, the event quickly had to be reimagined for a virtual setting.
Among the famed folks going to bat for Friends of the St. Louis Public Library are Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Joe Buck, Andy Cohen and Ozzie Smith.
Left Bank Books, the city's oldest independent bookstore, has announced its reopening for in-store shopping after being closed for most of a year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist James McBride, former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and science fiction great Samuel R. Delaney are among this…
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Challenges to books with LGBTQ themes continued during 2020, a year that libraries were often closed because of the pandemic.
University City Mayor Terry Crow will help celebrate Subterranean Books' new space with a ribbon-cutting at 1 p.m. Saturday (April 10).
The starring role in “Unsinkable” goes to the USS Plunkett, a destroyer — a “tin can” — in World War II. Author James Sullivan gives readers t…
They would not only make appearances in his fiction, they'd also marry and divorce him, bear his only children, and finance his early writing years.
There are doorstop biographies, and then there are appreciations. Alexander Nemerov has taken the latter approach in “Fierce Poise,” his vibra…
An enjoyable murder mystery helped balance out a grim novel about alcoholism.
The wealthy suburb of Chouteau Forest is known for its beautiful homes and well-kept lawns, but it also is known as a place that guards its secrets.
When Larry Olmsted was researching this intriguing, wide-ranging look into sports and the fans who follow them, he asked his sources two questions:
If St. Louis third-graders can’t read ‘Charlotte’s Web’ or even ‘Captain Underpants,’ they might not graduate from high school, let alone coll…
After Dale Breadwin’s long-abusive father is found lying on the floor in a pool of blood, four residents of Claypot, Wisconsin, set out to fin…
Author John J. Dunphy seems well-qualified to tell these gory stories.
Up to 20 people at a time will be allowed in University City Public Library starting March 23.
St. Louis County Library users will be able to visit their favorite branches starting March 23, but there is one caveat. They must make appointments.
One item from estate of Dennis “Denny” O’Neil — considered one of the most important writers in comic-book history — sold for $11,000, 10% ove…
