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

• Latest Adventures of Ronnie Smith, St. Louis's Antarctic Poet and Explorer

  published Sep 21, 2011

  When last seen, Air Force colonel, poet and former Riverfront Times feature subject Ronnie Smith was celebrating the end of a years' long campaign to rename all the airway navigation waypoints on air ... More >>

• Author Bonnie Jo Campbell Talks About Hunting, Shooting and Once Upon a River

  published Sep 19, 2011

  Bonnie Jo Campbell will be in town tonight to help kick off this year's River Styx reading series at Duff's. (It starts at 7:30.) This is shaping up to be a banner season for the magazine, which has j... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Sep 19, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 11, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, P... More >>

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  Jeff and Mary Clarke: Model Scouts Object to Nightline Report on the "Dark Side" of Modeling

  published Sep 15, 2011

  This week is Fashion Week in New York City, which does not mean Missoni at Target as it does here, but instead tall, skinny girls walking down runways showing off the designer clothes that will hit st... More >>

• St. Louis Borders Closing (Finally)

  published Sep 13, 2011

  The end is here, after months of being near. To anyone who has been spending time at area Borders stores over the past week or so and seen people carrying out the shelves and the tables and other fixt... More >>

• "The Most Famous Story Most Americans Have Never Heard": J. Frank Norris, The Shooting Salvationist

  published Sep 13, 2011

  On July 17, 1926, J. Frank Norris, the most famous preacher in America and de facto leader of the burgeoning fundamentalist movement, shot and killed an unarmed man in his private office in his megach... More >>

• The Corrections Slated to Become HBO Series

  published Sep 13, 2011

  How much misery can you stand with your premium cabler You may get to find out soon: HBO is preparing to order the pilot episode of a new series based on The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen's 2001 novel... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Sep 12, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 4, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pu... More >>

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  New Studies Show that Alcohol Makes You Stupid and that Stress Makes Mice Want to do Coke

  published Sep 02, 2011

  On this eve of Labor Day weekend, Daily RFT would be remiss in our duty as buzzkill if we didn't share with you two new studies on the effects of alcohol and drugs. A group of researchers from the Uni... More >>

• All on the Same Page Bookstore to Open in Creve Coeur October 1

  published Sep 01, 2011

  Now that Borders has totally collapsed and the economy is still totally in the shitter and nobody likes to read books anymore anyway, the most foolish thing you can do right now is open up a bookstore... More >>

• Miserable Summer for Humans Restorative for Prairie Chickens

  published Aug 31, 2011

  Last spring, you may recall, Riverfront Times joined the Missouri Department of Conservation on a daring mission to the outskirts of Salina, Kansas, to kidnap several dozen prairie chickens and bring ... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 29, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 21, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd... More >>

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  Lives of Legendary Wash. U. Sex Researchers to Become TV Series

  published Aug 29, 2011

  It's really amazing nobody has thought of this before. Back in 1955, William Masters, a member of the OB/GYN faculty at Washington University, decided to undertake a definitive study of female sexual... More >>

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  Angela Mitchell: 2011 Riverfront Times MasterMind Award Winner

  published August 25, 2011

  Earlier this summer, to celebrate her 40th birthday, Angela Mitchell traveled to Ireland with her family. "It got me thinking about how... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 22, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 14, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd... More >>

• "Drama King" Joel P.E. King Premieres New Play This Weekend

  published Aug 22, 2011

  When we last checked in with Joel King, the playwright, director, advocate of urban theater and subject of the February feature story "Drama King" was preparing to move to LA to revise his latest prod... More >>

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  Local Booksellers Racing to Fill Borders-Shaped Hole

  published Aug 19, 2011

  If you've been one of the many circling the carcass of the Borders in Brentwood at its going-out-of-business sale (and, judging from the length of the lines, which are Christmas-length, you probably a... More >>

• Lev Grossman Talks About The Magician King

  published Aug 16, 2011

  Fans of Lev Grossman's 2009 novel The Magicians, may have wondered what happened after Quentin Coldwater, an ordinary depressive boy from Brooklyn, found his way to the super-fabulous Brakebills Acade... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 15, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 7, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'... More >>

• Criminals, Beware: Mystery/Crime Convention Bouchercon on Its Way to St. Louis

  published Aug 12, 2011

  Daily RFT would like to make a prediction: The crime rate in St. Louis will increase exponentially next month, starting on Thursday, September 15 and continuing through the weekend. Fortunately for t... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 08, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 31, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'n... More >>

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  Smart Girls Invade St. Louis -- Teaching Conservatives to "Fight Like a Girl"

  published Aug 03, 2011

  Sarah Palin was not present at the third annual Smart Girl Summit, which took place last Friday and Saturday at the Crowne Plaza downtown (not, as was reported by The Daily Beast, in Louisville). Neit... More >>

• BWORKS Moving from Shaw to Soulard

  published Aug 02, 2011

  The "B" in "BWORKS" variously stands for Bicycle, Byte and Book, but the underlying principle is the same for all three divisions: Teach kids something, and then send them home with something else, ei... More >>

• RIP Poet and Songwriter Fran Landesman, 1927-2011: "Life is a Bitch"

  published Aug 01, 2011

  Fran Landesman, a poet and songwriter who, along with her husband Jay and brother-in-law Fred, ran the Crystal Palace nightclub in Gaslight Square in the late 1950s, died last Saturday, July 23, in Lo... More >>

• The St. Louis Salt Room has patients breathing in salty air

  published August 4, 2011

  Clay Juracsik doesn't believe in medication. He prefers natural remedies and uses antibiotics only as a last resort. So three years ago when his... More >>