Kevin Killeen

The Future Helen Matthes Library

Join Left Bank Books, Blank Slate Press, and the Helen Matthes Library for a special Lit at the Library event. Enjoy readings from two authors, followed by a Q&A and book signing. A reporter with KMOX Radio since 1995, Kevin Killeen has confused listeners for the past ten years with is regular morning feature, A Whole 'nother Story. In Never Hug a Nun, Killeen's comic novel, he takes us back to his youth when he spent long summer days on the train tracks or hanging out at the Velvet Freeze and wishing he were a teenager. Jean Ellen Whatley is an Emmy Award-winning journalist cum author and has been a guest columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, among many other publications. In her memoir, Off the Leash, Jean and her dog Libby set out from St. Louis and drive nearly 9,000 miles across America to revive her life. The authors' books will be for sale at the event courtesy of Left Bank Books. Attendees are also invited to a Lit at the Lake reception with the authors following the event.

Location: Street: The Future Helen Matthes Library Additional: 200 N. 3rd St City: Effingham, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 63401 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Kevin Killeen will discuss and sign his new novel, Never Hug A Nun. Books for sale courtesy of Left Bank Books. Kevin currently works downtown, across the street from the main library headquarters, at KMOX radio, where he has been a general assignment and feature reporter for some 17 years. His news reports have contributed to the station winning Edward R. Murrow awards, and his feature reports on topics ranging from The Fate of Bait Shop Crickets, to What Desperate Men Buy at Walgreens on Valentine Afternoon have also been honored. Written with the keen sense of comic timing Killeen brings to radio station KMOX's "Whole 'nother Story" and the annual Holiday Radio Show, Never Hug a Nun is a sweet, laugh-out-loud look at the innocence of childhood in the leafy Webster Groves suburb of 1960s Saint Louis. In the Carnegie Room on the 3rd floor. (KarenElissa)… (more)