Email Author Chris King

2000 Stories by Chris King

• A League of Their Own

  published October 18, 2000

  Women's professional basketball is coming to town, though not to stay. Stars of the WNBA, many of them sporting gold medals that they picked up in... More >>

• Games Show

  published September 13, 2000

  As The Sporting News' Best Sports City in America for 2000, St. Louis should know something about the civic power of athletics. If the... More >>

• UniverSoul Man

  published August 23, 2000

  As gaudy ambitions go, starting a circus ranks pretty high. Clowns, wild animals tamed to perform tricks, high-wire acts, the odd contortionist,... More >>

• Ruby Read

  published August 23, 2000

  You could describe Jack Ruby's America as a poetic foray into conspiracy theory, though, oddly, you don't really need a taste for... More >>

• Conspiratorial Voices

  published August 23, 2000

  Jack Ruby's America is David Clewell's eighth book of poems and the second in "an ongoing imagined history of modern American paranoia and... More >>

• Summer of Slam

  published July 26, 2000

  A poetry-slam tour, in which touring poets will perform with a St. Louis gang of four selected through a previous series of slam competitions, is... More >>

• Swiss Mystery

  published May 17, 2000

  Unlike nearly everyone else who has studied at Washington University and come to love the work of Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky did not learn... More >>

• The Robber

  published May 17, 2000

  If you favor straightforward storytelling, books strong on what is called through- line in the publishing business, then bye. This is not the... More >>