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Racism isn’t just a topic in the streets, as St. Louis has joined cities across the nation in marching against police brutality toward people of color.…

On the latest edition of Politically Speaking, St. Louis-based author Sarah Kendzior talks with St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum about her new…

Author Candacy Taylor’s stepfather grew up in the Jim Crow South. But it wasn’t until she began researching her new book, “Overground Railroad: The Green…

Twenty-nine years ago this spring, Jeanine Cummins lost two of her cousins in a brutal attack on the old Chain of Rocks Bridge that spans the Mississippi…

Updated Jan. 25 with the event cancellationLeft Bank Books has canceled Sunday’s scheduled discussion and book signing with "American Dirt" author Jeanine…

Miranda Popkey is a California native, and much of her debut novel, “Topics of Conversation,” is set in the state. But the novel has a St. Louis origin…

When a small press published "Juliet Takes a Breath" a few years ago, the work of young adult fiction first found critical acclaim from online LGBTQ and…

While many writers pen memoirs because of something particularly distinctive or unusual about their lives, the reason Chavisa Woods gives for writing hers…

With summer in full swing, book enthusiasts are looking for poolside reads and plane trip entertainment. Authors from St. Louis and elsewhere in Missouri…

Left Bank Books is turning 50 this year, and on Tuesday’s St. Louis on the Air, co-owner Kris Kleindienst talked about the shop’s storied history with St.…