Literature

English writer Neil Gaiman is a recipient of both the Newbery and Carnegie medals.

Tim Youd is an artist, but his medium may surprise you. Youd types. The Los Angeles resident uses old-fashioned typewriters to painstakingly retype…

Jane Smiley recently came back to St. Louis for her 50th high school reunion. But unlike many of us, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist wasn’t content…

Friends, family and admirers will remember St. Louis poet Michael Castro during a memorial service Sunday at Central Reform Congregation, 5020 Waterman…

Jane Ellen Ibur’s long wait to be designated as St. Louis’ official poet will soon be over. A task force first chose Ibur in December 2016 to replace…

After months of discord over who should be the next poet laureate for St. Louis, the city could select a new voice this fall.St. Louis has been without an…

Shortly after Anna Guzon of St. Louis graduated from medical school, she realized she wanted to practice a different kind of medicine: helping young…

Actors will tell the real-life stories of young men aging out of a children’s home in a staged reading on Saturday in Ferguson.The free event at the…

For more than 20 years, novelist Junot Diaz has explored the immigrant experience.From his debut 1996 novel, “Drown,” a semi-autobiographical work on the…

Last week I had a morning filled with culture. I first went to the Eugene Field Museum in downtown St. Louis. In March 2007 the Eugene Field House was…