Email Author Aimee Levitt

Awards

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published November 4, 2010

  "Kevin Jackson Wrote the Book..."

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published June 30, 2010

  "Dr. Peanut"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Literary St. Louis"

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2011 Stories by Aimee Levitt

• Doe! Missouri Department of Conservation Raps -- And Chills With Gender-Bending Deer

  published Nov 30, 2011

  The Missouri Department of Conservation is super-dope these days. First there's the bidness with the gender-bending deer, which is totally down with the brave new world of ambiguous sexuality. And the... More >>

• P-D Readers Don't Think Homeless People Deserve Books for Christmas

  published Nov 29, 2011

  It started off innocently enough. The St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance had a meeting to discuss holiday plans. It came up with Hope for the Holidays, a book drive sort of like the one Left Ban... More >>

• The Ideal Gift for the Couch Potato Who Has Everything

  published Nov 28, 2011

  What more can we say, besides to add that it is Cyber Monday so it would be practically un-American not to take a few minutes out of your workday and purchase a case of genuine Dunder Mifflin copy pap... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Nov 28, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 20, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pu... More >>

• Venturing Further Into the Little House, "The Book No Depression Could Stop"

  published Nov 23, 2011

  This week's feature story, "Little House in the Present," is, among other things, about the circumstances that led Laura Ingalls Wilder, a farm wife in Mansfield, Missouri, to write the Little House o... More >>

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  The Ghosts of Thanksgiving Past

  published Nov 23, 2011

  Last Thanksgiving, Gut Check took a trip back in time to revisit the Thanksgivings of the good old days. Well, what we really wanted to revisit was the fabulous spread put on by the Park Avenue Hotel ... More >>

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  Little House in the Present: America's economic downturns run through Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like a big three-hearted river

  published November 24, 2011

  In late August 1894, the Wilder family — Almanzo, Laura and their seven-year-old daughter Rose — arrived in Mansfield, Missouri.... More >>

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  How Much is Albert Pujols Worthr

  published Nov 22, 2011

  Lamar Pierce, an associate professor of strategy at Washington University's Olin Business School, wants to make it clear: He does not think Albert Pujols, who's likely to get a substantial raise in 20... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Nov 21, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 13, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pu... More >>

• Excellent News From Mizzou Researchers: Teenage Girls Do Not Want to Marry Vampires

  published Nov 18, 2011

  OMG, did you hear The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is out today and that Edward and Bella totally have the most romantic wedding ever and then they, like, totally do it and break the headboard... More >>

• Askinosie's New Chocolate Drink to Benefit Filipino School

  published Nov 18, 2011

  The do-gooding tendencies of rAskinosie Chocolate are as much a part of the company as the chocolate itself. Owner and proprietor Shawn Askinosie has long made it a point to share ... More >>

• Danforth Center Has Big Plans to Eradicate World Hunger

  published Nov 18, 2011

  If there were an easy way to end starvation around the world, somebody would have thought of it by now. Obviously. But there are still one billion people worldwide suffering from chronic malnutrition ... More >>

• Carl Phillips in Running to Become Susan Lucci of Poetry World

  published Nov 17, 2011

  Last night the National Book Award committee decided for the fourth time not to give the poetry prize to Carl Phillips, Wash. U. professor and one of St. Louis' most awesome poets. Four times, people!... More >>

• What Are Missourians Required to Do When Faced With Jerry Sandusky-Style "Horseplay"r

  published Nov 16, 2011

  Say Mike McQueary had stumbled on Jerry Sandusky engaging in "horseplay" (as Sandusky described it to Bob Costas on Monday night) with a ten-year-old boy in a shower in Columbia instead of State Colle... More >>

• Want to Avoid Breast Cancerr Stop Drinking

  published Nov 15, 2011

  A new study out of Washington University Medical School shows that women with a family history of breast cancer have a greater risk of developing the disease themselves the more they drink. That's rig... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Nov 14, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 6, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pud... More >>

• Another Reason To Remember 11/11/11

  published Nov 11, 2011

  Yes, friends, it is that mystical day, the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the century. (Technically, only the tenth, but whatever.) Several among you took to the Twitters t... More >>

• StL Artist Sarah Jean Linquist is Gone, But Thanks to Her Friends, Her New Book Lives On

  published Nov 11, 2011

  For 30 years, Sarah Jean Linquist was a quiet but omnipresent artistic force in St. Louis. Her murals decorated buildings, her painted backdrops enlivened the stage of the Muny and her "landscapes" br... More >>

• New Dental Product Speeds Up Numbness Recovery

  published Nov 10, 2011

  But wait -- after dental work, don't you want to remain numbr Actually, after we got our wisdom teeth out, we would have preferred to remain unconscious. But numb was okay, too. It beat the protracted... More >>

• RIP "Easy Ed" Macauley, Star of Boston Celtics, St. Louis Hawks and SLU Billikens

  published Nov 09, 2011

  "Easy Ed" Macauley, one of the early stars of the NBA and, incidentally, the Saint Louis University Billikens, died yesterday here in St. Louis. He was 83 years old and six feet eight inches tall. Ma... More >>

• Wash. U. Researchers May Have Discovered First Step in Preventing Cerebral Palsy

  published Nov 09, 2011

  Five years ago, a group of researchers at Washington University Medical School discovered that elevated levels of an enzyme called Nmnat1 could prevent nerve damage. This got Philip Verghese, a postdo... More >>

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  Educators Go on TV to Discuss Dropout Crisis

  published Nov 09, 2011

  Not much has changed since Riverfront Times reported on the school dropout crisis back in January of 2009. Since 2004, the high-school graduation rate in the St. Louis public schools has slid from 61 ... More >>

• Declare Your Love For Mizzou -- On Your Ass

  published Nov 08, 2011

  If the eighties taught us anything, it was that there's no better place to show off a fancy logo than your ass. And for most people, there is no fancier logo to flaunt than that of their dear, dear al... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Nov 07, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending October 30, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pud... More >>

• Local Author Totally Predicted Kardashian Divorce

  published Nov 04, 2011

  OK, it may be true that any cynic with a subscription to US Weekly could have said the same thing, but Anne Milford, the local author in question, has expertise. Nearly 20 years ago, Milford, then 29,... More >>