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November 3, 2014
Local author debuts novel, superhero origin story perfect for Palahniuk fans
From Lauren Wiser Left Bank Books presents author Fred Venturini, who will sign and discuss his debut novel, The Heart Does Not Grow Back (Picador, November 2014), on Thursday, November 6, 7pm, at Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid). The Heart Does Not Grow back is the story of Dale Simpson, a nonperson at his…
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November 1, 2014
To Heck with the Hook
by Jennifer A. Hasheider The climax is the part everyone anticipates… I giggled when I first heard this advice in grade school. I had only a vague notion of what a climax was, and it didn’t seem to belong in the friendly monster tale I’d concocted. Much time has passed, and the climax, while still…
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October 29, 2014
The Perils of Familiarity
by Mark W. Tiedemann I’m running a workshop for a local group. This is an endeavor fraught with traps, pitfalls, ravenous worms, and flatulent amoeboids. They come, the stories, from hopeful pens, each offering up work in the hopes that the professional will deem it worthy or tell them how to fix it to make…
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September 4, 2014
How to Be a Good Author: An Editor’s Perspective
by Katherine Pickett Do you have what it takes to be a good author? This is not the same as being a good writer, at least not from an editor’s vantage point. No, although working with authors who are skilled with the pen does make an editor’s job more enjoyable, it is only one of…
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August 25, 2014
Roxane Gay Debuts New Collection of Essays
from Lauren Wiser Left Bank Books presents author Roxane Gay, who will sign and discuss her essay collection, Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, August 2014), on Friday, August 29, 7pm, at Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid). In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman…
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August 20, 2014
Book Review from Julie: I Shall be Near to You by Erin Lindsay
by Julie Earhart-Cracchiolo I’m always amazed at the new things about our American Civil War. Way back in my mind I knew that many women (more than 250 documented cases) cut their hair, bound their breasts, and joined the conflict, but I had never read any of their stories. Until now. Although McCabe’s I Shall…
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August 15, 2014
Carl Weber Reads from The Choir Director 2
Left Bank Books presents author Carl Weber, who will sign and discuss his novel, The Choir Director 2: Runaway Bride (Grand Central Publishing, August 2014), on Wednesday, August 20, 7pm, at the Schlafly Branch of the St. Louis Public Library (225 N. Euclid). It’s been three years since Aaron Mackie succeeded in helping his friend…
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August 6, 2014
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian
by Julie Earhart-Cracchiolo I fell in love with Chris Bohjalian’s writings about a year after Oprah picked his novel Midwives as her Book Club Pick. I’ve read almost everything he’s written since then. Some I’ve loved; other not as much. But let me tell you, Bohjalian’s seventeenth novel Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is probably…
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August 5, 2014
Lori Rader-Day to Sign her Debut Novel The Black Hour
Left Bank Books presents debut author Lori Rader-Day, who will sign and discuss her mystery novel, The Black Hour (Seventh Street Books, July 2014), on Monday, August 11, 7pm, at Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid). For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic – until a student she’d never met shot her.…
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August 4, 2014
Phaedra Parks Signs Her Books
Left Bank Books presents Phaedra Parks, who will sign copies of her etiquette book, Secrets of the Southern Belle: How to Be Nice, Work Hard, Look Pretty, Have Fun, and Never Have an Off Moment (Gallery Books, August 2014), on Saturday, August 9, 5pm, at Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid). This event is a…
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