Joan Didion

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 14, 2011
Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List
image viaJohn Hodgman: barefoot sage of the Mad Art Gallery.Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 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 ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2011
Vargas Llosa Wins St. Louis Literary Award
image viaIt's really hard to top a Nobel Prize, but once you've won that, what else are you going to do? Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who won the big prize last year, has elected to keep on collecting awards, notably the St. Louis Literary Award, presented by the Saint Louis Univ ... More >>
Culture
February 3, 2011
The story of C.S. Lewis' fling with a younger woman fails to achieve lift-off
Culture
January 27, 2011
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene
Culture
January 20, 2011
Over Dunne: Fontaine Syer rescues Joan Didion's awful Year of Magical Thinking
Calendar
January 6, 2011
Didion's Bible
Blogs
December 7, 2009
Deb Peterson vs. Dick Weiss: Mrrrrreeow! An Old-Fashioned Media Spat
Back in the day, newsboys and a few -girls from competitive dailies used to race each other to deadline. The afternoon paper wanted to beat the morning rag, and vice versa. This was generally friendly jousting, mind you, which closed with the wordsmiths bellying up to the bar elbow to elbow, and buy ... More >>
Film
August 26, 2009
Ruining Woodstock: Who knew three days of peace & music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)
Music
October 18, 2006
Climb Ev'ry Mountain
B-Sides gets lonely with the Mountain Goats and pays the rent with Pet Shop Boys.
Calendar
January 14, 2004
Sex, Paralysis, the Usual
It's only River Styx at Duff's