Danielle Dutton News Today

This week the Missouri Botanical Garden is having an herb sale, the Twilight Tuesdays concert series starts back up and a new exhibit about the Worlds Fair opens.

“Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” the author’s new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.

Just before the publication of her novel "Bitter Water Opera," Nicolette Polek talked to us about finding god and living off the land.

A weekly digest of literary news and events from around the region

Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, by the US writer Danielle Dutton, is a stylish and unconventional mixture of fiction and essays

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of award-winning “Chain Gang All-Stars” and “Friday Black,” traveled to Washington University on Jan. 31 for a book reading and Q&A about his experience as a political author.

Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of bestselling novels “Trust” and “In the Distance,” visited Washington University to read the work of MFA students and deliver a craft talk in Hurst Lounge on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.

Scott Dickson Carnahan, 67, passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 18, 2023, the day before his 68th birthday, surrounded by loving family. He resided in Lowe

The US author on the book she should never have read as a child; the thrill of Emily Dickinson, and falling in love with Vasily Grossman

Publishing is both a centuries-old intellectual tradition and a sprawling contemporary practice. Yet at its core, publishing seeks to answer one overarching question: How do ideas make their way into the world? So argues Martin Riker, director of the new publishing concentration in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.