Books and Literature

Related Search

News Home News Blog Ask a Mexican Archives Search RFT Flipbook Weekly Newsletter Get Mobile

Calendar Home Top Picks Submit an Event Events Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Music Home Music Blog Concert Calendar Bars and Clubs Submit an Event Music Newsletter Get Mobile Music Ads

Restaurants Home Food Blog Find a Restaurant Menus Happy Hours Deals Dining Newsletter Get Mobile Restaurant Ads

Arts Home Theater Arts Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Film Home Showtimes Film Poll 2011 Film Festivals Film Newsletter Get Mobile Free Stuff

Best Of Home 2011 2010 2009 2008 Best Of Newsletter Get Mobile Best Of Ads

Promotions Home Promotional Events Street Team Free Stuff Promotions Newsletter Get Mobile Deals

Post an Ad Jobs Real Estate Advertiser Index Deals Deals Newsletter Virtual Career Fair

Blogs
May 21, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 13, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Following the ancient St. Louis precept that high sch ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 29, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It's a pity Jean Carnahan decided not to call her ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 8, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Friends, it's finally here: that book that provides ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 1, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Last week everybody was preparing for Easter, so of ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 25, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. More than half of the titles on this week's adult ... More >>
News
March 15, 2012
With The Might Have Been, rookie novelist and Webster U prof Joe Schuster hits one out of the park at age 59
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 25, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. More than half of the titles on this week's adult ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 4, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. St. Louisans are apparently in a vengeful mood. G ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 26, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It never really got cold enough this year to ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2012
Marvel v. Local Comic Book Writer: Who Has Rights to Ghost Rider?
image viaNever mind if he's dead or alive, who the hell gets the money he's making?Sometime in the late 1960s, a Missouri-born comic book writer named Gary Friedrich came up with a new character: Ghost Rider, a motorcycle stunt rider who sold his soul to the devil and consequently exchanged h ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Read it and weep. Like, a lot.Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 15, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. The children ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 8, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Bob Reuter's got a band (Alley Ghost), a radio sh ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 1, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. The bestseller list for the last week of 2011 is o ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 25, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Amanda Doyle's Finally, A Locally Produced Guide ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
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, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It took a month, but The Year of the St. Louis C ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
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, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Sometimes the bestseller list has a sense of hum ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
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, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Unbelievable as it may sound, on this wee ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending October 23, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It's been a good week for St. Louisans -- ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending October 16, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Hey, look, it's Freedom! Back again, in it ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Of course, not all Bouchercon attendees were out-of-towners. Local Laurell K. Hamilton was there, too, with her latest Anita Blake novel.Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 18, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sa ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
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, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It's so good to see people planning ahe ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2011
Author Bonnie Jo Campbell Talks About Hunting, Shooting and Once Upon a River
image viaBonnie Jo CampbellBonnie 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.) You should go. This may be your last chance to see Campbell up close and personal and buy her a beer before she becomes really, really f ... More >>
Calendar
September 8, 2011
Implicated By Their Own Words
image viaBonnie Jo CampbellBonnie 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.) You should go. This may be your last chance to see Campbell up close and personal and buy her a beer before she becomes really, really f ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
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'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. One of the subsidiary functions of the local ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
This week's number five adult bestseller, the work of a couple of St. Louis cops.Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 24, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Is this a solution for the parents in Go the Fuck to Sleep?Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 3, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 10, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books, Sue's News and The Book House. Amazingly, there were some ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Not just a New York Times bestseller, but a St. Louis bestseller, too!Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 3, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranea ... More >>
News
March 17, 2011
Band of Bookstores: Facing extinction, indies unite to show us everything they bring to St. Louis that Amazon can't
Not just a New York Times bestseller, but a St. Louis bestseller, too!Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 3, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranea ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 6, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. This week, the adult and children's best ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Publisher Attempts to Limit E-Book Circulation, Libraries Fight Back
image viaIt's a brave new electronic world we live in, where blogs like this one that you're reading have replaced daily newspapers, e-mail and Facebook updates have replaced letters and phone calls and the heavy stacks of textbooks that used to weigh down schoolkids may now be replaced with ... More >>
Calendar
February 24, 2011
After the Loving
image viaIt's a brave new electronic world we live in, where blogs like this one that you're reading have replaced daily newspapers, e-mail and Facebook updates have replaced letters and phone calls and the heavy stacks of textbooks that used to weigh down schoolkids may now be replaced with ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Left Bank, Subterranean Books Now Selling Google eBooks
As of this morning, two of St. Louis's proudly independent bookstores have joined in the digital revolution: Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop and Left Bank Books in the Central West End and downtown are now offering Google eBooks on their respective websites. Both stores have been selli ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2010
A Century After His Death, Twain is Back Atop of the Best-Seller List
image viaOctober has been a rough month for Jonathan Franzen. First his glasses got stolen. Then he didn't get nominated for the National Book Award. And now Freedom has been overtaken and surpassed on the Amazon best-seller list by volume one of The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Yeah, Franzen ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2010
Even Oprah Must Concede That Franzen Reigns Supreme
Even Queen Oprah must bow down to the overpowering literary force that is Freedom. Although she doesn't plan to reveal her new book club selection till tomorrow's show, the Associated Press reports that the Queen of Talk, like everyone else (except the Washington Post's Ron Charles) thinks Jo ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
Jonathan Franzen Deserves the Freedom Hype
Every writer hates a winner. And so with Jonathan Franzen's new novel earning raves from just about everybody who matters in American letters, we've been subjected to the predictable envious backlash about how Franzen is overrated (and annoying), how middle-aged white guys get preferential treatment ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
Forget Freedom (For Now): Other Books Are Just As Worthy
image viaSomeday I'll read Freedom. I'm currently 113th on the waiting list at University City Library. Maybe Sarah will lend me her copy in an attempt to convert me to Freedom-dom. I suppose I could go out and buy a copy. But $28 is a pretty steep price to pay for a hardcover, especially for on ... More >>
News
August 18, 2010
From Mark Twain to Jonathan Franzen, St. Louis has been home to a surprising number of great writers
image viaSomeday I'll read Freedom. I'm currently 113th on the waiting list at University City Library. Maybe Sarah will lend me her copy in an attempt to convert me to Freedom-dom. I suppose I could go out and buy a copy. But $28 is a pretty steep price to pay for a hardcover, especially for on ... More >>
Calendar
March 17, 2010
Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
image viaSomeday I'll read Freedom. I'm currently 113th on the waiting list at University City Library. Maybe Sarah will lend me her copy in an attempt to convert me to Freedom-dom. I suppose I could go out and buy a copy. But $28 is a pretty steep price to pay for a hardcover, especially for on ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2010
Columbia Named 17th Most Romantic City in America
flickr.com/photos/ryangladstonephoto Stuff like this happens in Columbia every day! That's what makes it one of the most romantic cities in America.Some shocking news from Amazon.com: The most romantic city in Missouri is...Columbia. Yep. The home of the University of Missouri ranks 17th i ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2010
St. Louis Short Story Writer Joe Schwartz Now Giving It Up for Free
lulu.comThat's his work, you dirty-minded fools.Joe Schwartz, as some of you may recall, is an employee of the St. Louis Public Library who self-published his first short story collection Joe's Black T-Shirt: Short Stories About St. Louis last August. He planned to sell the book at readings aroun ... More >>
Calendar
December 30, 2009
The Value of Batman
lulu.comThat's his work, you dirty-minded fools.Joe Schwartz, as some of you may recall, is an employee of the St. Louis Public Library who self-published his first short story collection Joe's Black T-Shirt: Short Stories About St. Louis last August. He planned to sell the book at readings aroun ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
One More Food Book for 2009
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
Calendar
July 8, 2009
Pearson in Person
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
News
April 15, 2009
Lit Up: Keisha Ervin's gritty tales of the St. Louis streets have made her one of the nation's hottest purveyors of urban fiction
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
Calendar
April 1, 2009
Augusten Burroughs
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
Calendar
February 4, 2009
President Jimmy Carter
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
News
April 9, 2008
Leon examines cures for writer's block
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
Calendar
April 2, 2008
Fowler Play
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
Calendar
January 16, 2008
Eileen Favorite
In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momofuku cookbook and Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan's memoir, Cooking Dirty. A crippling brain ... More >>
News
December 6, 2006
Hillbilly Noir
The literary world is abuzz over Daniel Woodrell, bard of the Ozarks.
More >>

Browse Voice Nation

Books and Literature

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

News

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

News

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

News

Calendar

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Blogs

Calendar

News

Calendar

Calendar

News

Calendar

Calendar

News

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This