Charles Dickens

With The Might Have Been, rookie novelist and Webster U prof Joe Schuster hits one out of the park at age 59

Do the Twist

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 12, 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 was a fine week on the bestseller list for St ... More >>

Your 2011 St. Louis Bestseller List -- And This Week's, Too

It's been a year since St. Louis's independent booksellers banded together to form the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance in order to fight the threat of Amazon. It worked: The only bookstores that closed in St. Louis this year were part of the Borders chain. The Alliance sponsored bookstore b ... More >>

What the Dickens?! For Kids!

​John Hendrix makes a living creating illustrations and covers for periodicals such as the New York Times and Rolling Stone. It's a difficult field to break into, and it's just as difficult to maintain one's standing because you have to keep producing at a steady rate. "Sometimes you get a call at ... More >>

So Hue Me: Go see The Giver; it'll color your world

​John Hendrix makes a living creating illustrations and covers for periodicals such as the New York Times and Rolling Stone. It's a difficult field to break into, and it's just as difficult to maintain one's standing because you have to keep producing at a steady rate. "Sometimes you get a call at ... More >>

Is Dickens' A Christmas Carol Anti-Semitic, Christian Propaganda?

Ebenezer Scrooge: Brought to you by the same author who created the notoriously cringe-worthy Jewish stereotype, Fagin.​ Well, it's that time of year again. Christmas. We all know what that means. Twenty-four hour marathons of A Christmas Story on TBS. Gaudy lights tacked onto just about ever ... More >>

Reminder: Franzen Meets Oprah at 4 P.M.!

image via​Just on the off chance you may have forgotten: Jonathan Franzen finally makes his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show this afternoon to discuss Freedom. Locally, the show airs at 4 p.m. on KSDK-TV (Channel 5). And on the off chance you're not up on your Oprah book news (but why e ... More >>

Cratchit!

image via​Just on the off chance you may have forgotten: Jonathan Franzen finally makes his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show this afternoon to discuss Freedom. Locally, the show airs at 4 p.m. on KSDK-TV (Channel 5). And on the off chance you're not up on your Oprah book news (but why e ... More >>

Tennessee Williams Writes Like ... H.P. Lovecraft? WTF?

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Top Pair: Upstream and Mustard Seed add up to a winning weekend of theater

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Spirits of the Season

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Moonflower Resurrection: Jetta Carleton's long-forgotten bestseller about the secret desires of a Missouri farm family blooms again

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2008 Music Awards Nominees: Best Rock Band

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RFT Music Awards Nominees: St. Louis' Best and Brightest

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St. Louis' etiquette masters tell us how to mind our manners

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Go! 12/21-12/23

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Ghosts of Art Shows Almost Past

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Winter of Our Discontent

This holiday season Dennis discovers that one head-scratcher leads to another.

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Tale Spin

There's too many pages between these fine bookends.

What Revolting Peasants

There's too many pages between these fine bookends.

A Tale of Two Actors

Dennis chats with Myron Freedman and Andrew Michael Neiman, the leads in St. Louis Shakespeare's A Tale of Two Cities

Les Mediocrity

Muny’s Les Miserables is long and dreary and, well, miserable.

Same Olde

Is Act Inc. up to a Load of Mischief?

God Bless Us, Every One!

Is Act Inc. up to a Load of Mischief?

What the Dickens?

Is Act Inc. up to a Load of Mischief?

On the Rocks, No Twist

Nothing like a spot of midsummer murder, kidnapping and child abuse!

Little Dickens

An update of Christmas past makes for a fine Christmas present

Artful Dodging

Polanski's Oliver Twist misses the grit of Dickens' classic

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Silver Dollar Christmas

Get to Branson before your good will is totally tapped out

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Hurts Like the Dickens

Sitting through an unintelligible Edwin Drood might be hazardous to your health

Play It Again

The Crucible and Marat/Sade resonate anew in the Lou

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Little Dickens

Oliver! is a far cry from the novel it's based on -- but you can dance to it

Injustice for All

Miller's crossings

Side Show

At the Muny, Stephen Sondheim is intelligent, stylish -- and taboo

Novel Approach

Fontbonne University immerses itself in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

The Fire Within

Yet another barn-burner from the magical Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Outside Providence

Directed by Michael Corrente