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December 1, 2010
Not Just a Bookstore Re-Opens Saturday in the Grove
Richard and Connie Cheek outside the former location of Not Just a Bookstore.If you've been to the Grove lately, you may have noticed that there have been a few additions besides the garish neon sign at the intersection of Manchester and Chouteau Avenues. For one thing, there's actual retail ... More >>
Culture
May 19, 2010
A literary sampler of books that will help you forget the heat
Richard and Connie Cheek outside the former location of Not Just a Bookstore.If you've been to the Grove lately, you may have noticed that there have been a few additions besides the garish neon sign at the intersection of Manchester and Chouteau Avenues. For one thing, there's actual retail ... More >>
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June 22, 2009
Kansas City Has Its Own Street-Lit Sensation, Quentin Carter, Who Just Got Out of Prison
A fellow scribe at The Pitch, RFT's sister paper in Kansas City, this week tells the awesome story of Quentin Carter, a street-lit writer who picked up pen and paper while doing eight years in The Big House. The Pitch(St. Louis' street-lit scene, and its starlet Keisha Ervin, were featured in the Ap ... More >>
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April 20, 2009
Street Lit: The Keisha Ervin Excerpts, #4
One of the main things haters of street lit like to harp on is the super-graphic sex scenes. (Because tweens and teens devour this genre.) Keisha Ervin's books contain scads of sex scenes. In my current cover story, "Lit Up," she explains: "It's actually getting harder for me to write [them]. I've d ... More >>
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April 17, 2009
Street Lit: The Keisha Ervin Excerpts, #3
After dishing out a heavy scene or two in our street-lit excerpts #1 and #2, I thought I'd end the week with a lil' lighter passage. Today's choice comes from Keisha Ervin's third book, Mina's Joint. This novel was my favorite of all. It tells the story of Mina Matthews, an up-and-coming St. Louis h ... More >>
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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
After dishing out a heavy scene or two in our street-lit excerpts #1 and #2, I thought I'd end the week with a lil' lighter passage. Today's choice comes from Keisha Ervin's third book, Mina's Joint. This novel was my favorite of all. It tells the story of Mina Matthews, an up-and-coming St. Louis h ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
Street Lit: The Keisha Ervin Excerpts, #1
Today marks the publication of my latest cover story, "Lit Up." It's a profile of the 27-year-old St. Louis author Keisha Ervin, starlet of a wildly popular category of fiction known as street lit.Never heard of the genre? Also known as urban fiction, urban lit and ghetto lit, it's one of the highes ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
This week in RFT, April 15 to April 22
A repertorial smorgasbord awaits this week in RFT. Writer Kristen Hinman gets the ball rolling with a story on the Liberation Christian Church, whose hip-hop "Soul Force" sermons has made for a unique worship experience every other Sunday on the Delmar Loop. You'll also want to ta ... More >>

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Not Just a Bookstore Re-Opens Saturday in the Grove

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A literary sampler of books that will help you forget the heat

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Kansas City Has Its Own Street-Lit Sensation, Quentin Carter, Who Just Got Out of Prison

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Street Lit: The Keisha Ervin Excerpts, #4

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Street Lit: The Keisha Ervin Excerpts, #3

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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

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Street Lit: The Keisha Ervin Excerpts, #1

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This week in RFT, April 15 to April 22

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