St. Louis native Kyle Beachy was warmly welcomed home last night at Left Bank Books in the Central West End, his presence due to the release of his debut novel, The Slide.Beachy is profiled in this week's issue of the RFT by writer Ben Westhoff. Read "St. Louis Serenade: Seven Years in the Making, Kyle Beachy's Debut Novel is a Love Letter to the Gateway City."As Westhoff writes in this week's feature, Beachy's novel is set in St. Louis and very loosely based off the author's own experiences du
rockingchairs.netRemember when you were little and mommy and daddy read to you each night? No? Well, me neither. But, hey, it's never too late to regress. To wit, tonight at Creative Art Gallery (3232 Ivanhoe Ave.) sit back while erstwhile Riverfront Times writer Wm. Stage reads to you from his new book Fool for Life. Even better, there will be refreshments (read: beer and wine) for the taking. And surely, your parents never let you drink a cold, frosty one during story time. Did they? The event
On Tuesday, May 19, Pansy Division front man Jon Ginoli will be at Euclid Records and Left Bank Books, promoting his new book, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division. The one-time Lookout! Records band is known as much for its catchy pop-punk as it is for being the leaders of the "queercore" movement -- a subgenre marked by bands demolishing gay stereotypes through music and political lyrics. Ginoli stops first at Euclid at 5:30 p.m., and then Left Bank at 7 p.m.
lulu.comThe number of short-story collections about St. Louis is embarrassingly thin; offhand, we can only think of two: The Middle of the Night by Daniel Stolar, out in 2004, and now Joe's Black T-Shirt by Joe Schwartz, out last month.Schwartz works full-time in the film department of the St. Louis Public Library. Joe's Black T-Shirt is his first book, composed over the course of four months between the hours of four and six in the morning.In an introductory author's letter, Schwartz writes:
