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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2012 Stories by Aimee Levitt

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  What's the Point of Surviving an Insanely Hot Summer If It Doesn't Set Any Good Weather Recordsr

  published Sep 11, 2012

  The autumn equinox and the official end of summer aren't for another week yet, but Labor Day has passed and there's a nice tinge of something in the air that might be an actual chill. Is it safe to sa... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Sep 10, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 2, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pu... More >>

• Wait, Should We Be Eating Organic Food or Notr

  published Sep 06, 2012

  Researchers at Stanford University published a study earlier this week that knocked proponents of organic food on their collective ear. Turns out that organic food, while far more expensive than conve... More >>

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  The Secret History of the St. Louis Post Office and Its Amazing Pneumatic Tube

  published Sep 05, 2012

  One hundred years ago, subterranean St. Louis was a fascinating place. There was, of course, the web of caves that stretched from Benton Park north to downtown and east to the Mississippi River with d... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Sep 04, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 26, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd... More >>

• RIP Shulamith Firestone, U. City-Raised Feminist Revolutionary

  published Aug 31, 2012

  Shulamith Firestone, a painter and writer whose 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution was one of the seminal books of second-wave feminism, was found dead in her apartment i... More >>

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  Amanda Zuckerman: Wash. U. Student/Dorm Decorating Maven

  published Aug 31, 2012

  Amanda Zuckerman is a young woman with discerning tastes. "I'm very into fashion," she says. "And if you care about fashion, you're going to care about how your dorm room looks. It's another form of s... More >>

• Hurricane Isaac: Forget Louisiana, It's Great for Missouri!

  published Aug 30, 2012

  Hurricane Isaac, the storm no Republican could stop, blew across the Gulf and hit southeast Louisiana on Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon, the winds had slowed to a mere 70 miles per hour, which prompt... More >>

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  Meet the New UM Press, Same as the Old UM Press, Sort Of [UPDATED With Comments From Clair Willcox and the Save the UM Press Facebook Page Organizers and News of Speer Morgan]

  published Aug 29, 2012

  Updated August 29 with comments from Ned Stuckey-French and Clair Willcox and news about Speer Morgan's "leadership role" at the end of this post. ----- The fate of the University of Missouri Press,... More >>

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  Walrus Publishing, Making Books By St. Louisans For St. Louisans

  published Aug 29, 2012

  When Lisa Miller moved to St. Louis from Jefferson City twenty years ago, she was impressed by the number of writers in town. Not the ones who moved away and got famous (though there are plenty of tho... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 27, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 19, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd... More >>

• The Academics Rally!: Latest Chapter in the Saga of UM Press

  published Aug 23, 2012

  Related content: University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July "Bonehead," "Cowardly," "Treachery": Supporters Fight to Save the University of Missouri Press Zombified University of Missouri P... More >>

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  Todd Akin's Science, Explained

  published Aug 22, 2012

  News of Todd Akin's idiocy has spread worldwide, which is kind of good because it means there's a larger pool of people who can inform us where his scientific opinions about rape and conception came f... More >>

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  Carrie M. Becker: 2012 Riverfront Times MasterMind Award Winner

  published August 23, 2012

  For Carrie M. Becker 2012 has been every unknown-artist's dream. In early January her photo series Barbie Trashes Her Dream... More >>

• Breaking News: Columbia is a Way, Way Smarter City Than StL

  published Aug 21, 2012

  Our good friends at the Daily Beast have decided to torment us with another set of rankings, this time a list of the 25 smartest cities in this fine nation of ours. Last time they did this, St. Louis ... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 20, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 12, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd... More >>

• "Friends Don't Let Friends Live in Chesterfield": Words of Wisdom From City Developer

  published Aug 16, 2012

  It's possible this picture says it all, the full thousand words. But maybe it requires a little more explanation.This coaster, which you may have seen at drinking establishments around town, was mea... More >>

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  Skullduggery and Conniving at University of Missouri Press: The Saga Continues

  published Aug 15, 2012

  The battle continues in Columbia over the fate of the University of Missouri Press, which lost its $400,000 in annual funding just before Memorial Day and then, miraculously, rose from the dead a few ... More >>

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  An Open Letter to Missouri Rep. Rory Ellinger, Re: Missouri State Dog

  published Aug 14, 2012

  Dear Representative Ellinger, First of all, congratulations on your victory in last week's primary! Yes, yes, we know you ran unopposed -- and will run unopposed again in November -- but a lot of peo... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 13, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 5, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Aug 06, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 29, 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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  Daily RFT Wants YOU To Help Us Nominate the Official Missouri State Dog!

  published Aug 01, 2012

  It has recently come to Daily RFT's attention that while Missouri has, among many other symbols, a state bird (bluebird), state game bird (bobwhite quail), state invertebrate (crayfish), state animal ... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Jul 30, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 22, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'n... More >>

• Thanks to This Stupid Drought, Food Prices Are Expected to Rise in 2013

  published Jul 27, 2012

  Yeah. There's still no rain. Sure, the sky tantalizes us from time to time with dark clouds and even distant thunder and lightning and everybody gets all excited, but does it ever deliverr It's such a... More >>

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  Missouri and Illinois Athletes in the London Olympics

  published Jul 26, 2012

  Tomorrow's the day, friends, when we begin the quadrennial sixteen days of sitting on our asses in front of the TV glory, the only time we ever get to see the likes of Greco-Roman wrestling or skeet s... More >>