An East St. Louis Anthology

An East St. Louis Anthology
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Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 1891442791
ISBN-13 : 9781891442797
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis An East St. Louis Anthology by : Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Institute for Urban Research

Comprised of facsimile reproductions of excerpts from: History of East St. Louis, by Robert A. Tyson (1875); Saint Louis : the future great city of the world, by Logan Reavis (1876); History of St. Clair County, Illinois (1881); Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, and, History of St. Clair County (1907); Standard atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois (1901); Directory of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1893); East St. Louis directory (1887); Ordinances of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1884).

St. Louis Noir

St. Louis Noir
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Publisher : Akashic Books
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781617754616
ISBN-13 : 1617754617
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis St. Louis Noir by : Scott Phillips

“St. Louis gets a turn to show its dark side . . . [A] spirited, black-hearted collection” including a story from New York Times–bestselling author John Lutz (Kirkus Reviews). A vibrant Midwest metropolis, St. Louis has a rich, multicultural history of art and literature—both high and low. That duality is embraced here in an anthology that spans the reaches of noir, from violent criminality to bad luck and bad attitudes. St. Louis Noir includes stories by bestselling authors John Lutz and Scott Phillips, a poetic interlude featuring Poet Laureate Michael Castro, and more tales from Calvin Wilson, LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn, Paul D. Marks, Colleen J. McElroy, Jason Makansi, S.L. Coney, Laura Benedict, Jedidiah Ayres, Umar Lee, Chris Barsanti, and L.J. Smith. “The stories here are uniformly strong. Regular readers of the Noir series know what to expect: tightly written, tightly plotted, mostly character-driven stories of murder and mayhem, death and despair, shadow and shock.” —Booklist “Thirteen tales of grim homicidal happenings (plus one poetic interlude) set in the streets of the St. Louis area.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ain't But a Place

Ain't But a Place
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Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Total Pages : 558
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ISBN-10 : 1883982286
ISBN-13 : 9781883982287
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Ain't But a Place by : Gerald Lyn Early

This collection of fiction and poetry, memoirs and autobiography, history and journalism illuminates the African American experience in St. Louis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Spoon River Anthology

Spoon River Anthology
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9780486112107
ISBN-13 : 0486112101
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Spoon River Anthology by : Edgar Lee Masters

DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div

House of Villadiva

House of Villadiva
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Publisher : Cahokia Press
Total Pages : 841
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ISBN-10 : 9781662906602
ISBN-13 : 1662906609
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis House of Villadiva by : Chris Andoe

A St. Louis Magazine Must-Read for 2021! WELCOME TO THE “ornate but rickety” Villadiva, whose stained glass windows and uneven floors house more than a century of St. Louis’s queer culture and drama. In a city where “ambition and history and activism and machinations mix with scandal and sex and ghosts and murder,” it’s beneath Villadiva’s crystal chandeliers that secrets are revealed and stories come to life. You’ll feel you’re in the room with provocateur Andoe and his riotous, multigenerational tribe of eccentrics, socialites, drag queens, card-reading witches, psychic mediums, addicts, and promiscuous extroverts--as well as the stalkers, liars, and felonious, headline-grabbing sociopaths who are determined to destroy them. House of Villadiva reveals the heart and heartlessness of urban queer life in the 21st century—and the secret to living through it. Book Review 1: "Chris Andoe writes like he talks, which is a very good thing, because he's one of our city’s best talkers. And the object of his fascination—whether he’s three martinis into a happy hour or three thousand words into a written chapter—is the ensemble cast that is LGBTQ St. Louis, in all its pettiness and pageantry, glory, and weirdness. Sometimes he only records the drama; other times he spritzes gasoline on the flames. But all of it captivates him. Readers of this book can count on feeling the same way." -- Nicholas Phillips, St. Louis Magazine

Sweeter Voices Still

Sweeter Voices Still
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9781953368072
ISBN-13 : 1953368077
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Sweeter Voices Still by : Ryan Schuessler

A groundbreaking nonfiction collection about queer life in the Midwest. "A marvelous ode to humanity and its passions."-- Little Village The middle of America―the Midwest, Appalachia, the Rust Belt, the Great

Seeking St. Louis

Seeking St. Louis
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Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Total Pages : 1098
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ISBN-10 : 1883982111
ISBN-13 : 9781883982119
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking St. Louis by : Lee Ann Sandweiss

Complementing the new permanent exhibition at the Missouri Historical Society, this anthology gathers over three centuries of writings on St. Louis by 100 individuals who have been inspired to describe the physical and cultural essence of this region. The volume contains excerpted selections from all genres--travel diaries, poetry, fiction, journalism, drama, and rare out-of-print and previously unpublished archival material--including poems by Angus Umphraville, from the first volume of verse published west of the Mississippi, and newspaper articles by Theodore Dreiser when he was a beat reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Other compelling excerpts were authored by such notables as Auguste Chouteau, Charles Dickens, William Wells Brown, William T. Sherman, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Fanny Hurst, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Nzotake Shange, John Lutz, Carl Phillips, and Quincy Troupe. A biographical introduction precedes each entry to place the author and the excerpt in the proper historical context. The content of Seeking St. Louis was enriched by the involvement of several of the St. Louis area's foremost literary experts--Robert Boyd, Jan Garden Castro, Gerald Early, Wayne Fields, and Karen Goering--who served as contributing editors.

Anthology of Magazine Verse

Anthology of Magazine Verse
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Total Pages : 1012
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059373822
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Anthology of Magazine Verse by : William Stanley Braithwaite

Volume for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."

The Last Children of Mill Creek

The Last Children of Mill Creek
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1948742640
ISBN-13 : 9781948742641
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Children of Mill Creek by : Vivian Gibson

Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek, a neighborhood of St. Louis razed in 1955 to build a highway. Her family, friends, church community, and neighbors were all displaced by urban renewal. In this moving memoir, Gibson recreates the every day lived experiences of her family, including her college-educated mother, who moved to St. Louis as part of the Great Migration, her friends, shop owners, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit, African-American community, and reflects upon what it means that Mill Creek was destroyed by racism and "urban renewal."