Left Bank BooksWeb site: http://www.left-bank.com/ Events URL: http://leftbank.booksense.com/NA… This bookstore is a BookSense member. Added by: fitzgene. Contacted: Not contacted. Favorited: classiclarkin, fitzgene, jaime_d, kperfetto, Pompey, stricken, sussabmax Description: Founded in 1969, Left Bank Books is the only independently-owned, full-service bookstore in the greater metropolitan area of St. Louis.
Located in the historic Central West End neighborhood, Left Bank Books is situated among magnificent turn-of-the-century residences and some of the best restaurants and finest art galleries in the area.
Left Bank Books has a cultural and progressive political focus. Specialties include: modern literature and poetry, the contemporary art and performing arts scene, political analysis, African-American, feminist, gay and lesbian literature; psychology and high quality, multicultural children's books. Our regular customers come from the immediate neighborhood, the greater metro area, which has a population exceeding 2.5 million people, and the two-state area of Missouri and Illinois. We offer every book in print and a vast used selection online and ship everywhere in the world.
Other features of the store include an extensive used book department and an art gallery featuring nine to twelve shows annually by local artists. We have a variety of discounts for educators and institutions. We offer a 20% discount on books selected by our registered book groups.
Owners and operators of Left Bank Books have always been intimately involved in community organizations; many are writers or artists. Some have advanced degrees in education, history, or literature. Owner Barry Leibman has a background in history and education and is an abstract/conceptual artist with many solo shows to his credit. Owner Kris Kleindienst has a degree in Women's Studies and English Literature from Washington University is a writer and political activist. She is a board member of the ACLU, and a founding board member of BUILD St. Louis. She won a Lambda Literary Award for her edited collection of essays, This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take On the 21st Century and writes a monthly column for the Vital Voice. Owner Lisa Greening has a degree in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and is a former educator with years of experience in various bookstores.
Some of our current community collaborations include collecting books for CASA and our "Clark Elementary School Reading Project," wherein our customers sponsor thirty-five students at Clark Elementary School who will receive a book a month until the end of the year.
Left Bank Books co-sponsors readings with a host of local literary organizations, including the St. Louis Public Library and River Styx. Upcoming events
Chuck Palahnuik (May 27 at 7:00pm) Interview, Q&A, signing. With Don Pollock. Event location: Mad Art Gallery, 2727 S. 12th Street, St. Louis, MO 63118
David Sedaris (June 17 at 7:00pm)
Opening Up Reading & Discussion (June 19 at 7:00pm) Bestselling author and Village Voice columnist Tristan Taormino will read from her new book, Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships and share what she learned from all the people she interviewed in open relationships around the country. Plus, she’ll take questions and facilitate ... (more)
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Past eventsKaren Joy Fowler (April 8 at 7:00pm)
Paul F. Boller, Jr.—Presidential Diversions (April 17 at 7:00pm) Paul F. Boller, Jr.’s widely admired and bestselling anecdotal histories have uncovered new aspects and hidden dimensions in the lives of our presidents. Now he turns to an uncharted—but unexpectedly revealing—element of our leaders’ personalities as he divulges stories of what the presidents ... (more)
Robin Miller—Robin to the Rescue (April 22 at 7:00pm) Food Network star, kitchen strategist, nutritionist and New York Times bestselling author Robin Miller has been coming to the rescue of busy home chefs for years. With her new book, appropriately titled, Robin to the Rescue, Robin offers over 200 new, home-cooked recipes and strategies for getting weeknight ... (more)
Steve Weinberg—Taking on the Trust (April 23 at 7:00pm) Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American history. Through her peerless fact gathering and devastating prose, reporter Ida Minerva Tarbell pioneered the new practice of investigative ... (more)
Diane Wilson - An Unreasonable Woman (April 25 at 6:00pm) A shrimp boat captain by trade, Diane Wilson turned activist to fight devastating pollution from plastics and chemical manufacturers on the Texas Gulf Coast. Wilson's talk is based on her 2005 book, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas.
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Mary Roach—Bonk (April 25 at 7:00pm) The study of sexual physiology has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey’s attic. Mary Roach, “the funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), shows us how and why sexual arousal ... (more)
Amy Goodman—Standing Up to the Madness (April 27 at 2:30pm) Award-winning Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David Goodman traveled the country to detail the ways in which grassroots activists have taken politics out of the hands of politicians. Standing Up to the Madness tells the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged ... (more)
Alton Brown—Feasting on Asphalt (April 27 at 4:00pm) Full of behind-the-scene images, along with Brown’s witty banter, diary entries, and tales from the road, Feasting on Asphalt is one of Brown’s most exquisite treats. On a three-thousand mile journey up America’s first “superhighway”—the Mississippi—Brown and his motorcycle-mounted team ... (more)
Martha Tod Dudman—Black Olives (April 28 at 7:00pm) Upon a chance sighting of her ex-boyfriend, Virginia does something most of us have only dreamed of. Unseen, she jumps into the back of his Jeep, and remains hidden all day, observing the man she once loved. She’s compelled to complete her unfinished portrait of their breakup, and relive the magical ... (more)
Amy Goldman Koss—Side Effects (April 29 at 6:00pm) As if it doesn’t suck enough to have cancer, practically every time you pick up books or see movies where characters get sick, you know they’ll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers, go through unspeakable torture and painful treatments, but walk away fine in the end. ... (more)
Joanne Harris (April 30 at 7:00pm) "Joanne Harris revives her characters from bestselling novel and popular movie Chocolat. Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, seek refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, living peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Then into their lives blows Zozie ... (more)Event location: St Louis Ethical Society, 9001 Clayton
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