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Every day is exciting at @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social , but yesterday brought a special thrill: the latest edition of bookseller trading cards from @biblioasis.bsky.social!
Among the fine purveyors featured is our own @jamescrossley.bsky.social. Beauty way to be!

Welcome to our world

An infographic advertising A Poem a Day on Classic 107.3, the Voice for the Arts in St. Louis, sponsored by Leviathan Bookstore. It takes the form of a collage of stationery and pressed flowers--lined paper, a fountain pen, a postage cancellation stamp, and a torn scrap of paper showing the fanciful prehistoric pachyderm skeleton that is the Leviathan Bookstore logo.

In honor of National Poetry Month, we're sponsoring A Poem a Day on Classic 107.3. You should obviously listen around the clock, but if you can't, you'll find the readings (including some from us) online!

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A good day to read a poem

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Beatrice the Sixteenth Check out Beatrice the Sixteenth - <b>A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate world&mdash;before the concept of gender.</b><br><br>Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of t...

A deep cut from 1909 for International Transgender Day of Visibility: Beatrice the Sixteenth, a genderfluid utopia by an international legal expert and activist who defied the gender binary more than a century ago. In the Radium Age series from @mitpress.bsky.social.

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The British covers of the six books on the 2026 International Booker shortlist. Titles are in the next photo's alt text.

A list from the NYT of the six books on the 2026 International Booker shortlist. The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar; translated by Ruth Martin. She Who Remains by Rene Karabash; translated by Izidora Angel The Director by Daniel Kehlmann; translated by Ross Benjamin On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia; translated by Padma Viswanathan The Witch by Marie NDiaye; translated by Jordan Stump Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi; translated by Lin King

The 2026 International Booker shortlist!
Congratulations to all!

A grainy, oversaturated daguerreotype shows a man in early 19th-century dress, with a high-collared jacket and tousled hair, standing with his arms folded, looking intently into the camera. It's the first selfie ever taken, by Robert Cornelius of Philadelphia in 1839.

Happy 200th birthday to photography! Is it dead, though?

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An infographic advertising an appearance by author David Henkin at Leviathan Bookstore on Thursday, March 26 at 7pm to discuss his book Out of the Ballpark.

It's almost Opening Day for the Major League Baseball season, which we're celebrating with author David Henkin and his book Out of the Ballpark. Details on our event page!

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A painting of a woman in cloche hat reading a book she holds in her lap. Text overlaying the image advertises Books of a Certain Age: A Salon* for the Discussion of Writing by Women of the Past *or be less snooty and call it a book club. 7pm at Leviathan Bookstore on the fourth Thursday of every other month. Book selections are: February 26, The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym; April 23, Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald; June 25, An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge; August 27, The Door by Magda Szabo; October 22, Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys; December 17, Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson.

In case there's any interest in seeing this year's list . . .

Our holiday book club pick!

A painting of a woman in '20s dress, including a cloche hat, reading a book held in her lap. Overlaid is text promoting Leviathan Bookstore's Books of a Certain Age discussion group, featuring The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym, Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald, An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge, The Door by Magda Szabo, Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, and Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson.

Maybe our subsequent book club picks will at least equal her.

Next month’s Books of a Certain Age discussion pick is Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald! Almost wish we could spend a whole year reading all of her work…

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Romance has certainly come in for more than its share of vitriol, but not here and not now.

He may well be a testy, ungrateful bastard, but I can't speak to anything other than what was said in this now-disjointed thread, in which he specifically said he celebrates and sells romance. I am also happy to sell romance. The OP never said anything bad about romance per se either. Nor did I.

Then can you carefully point out where anyone has said anything negative about romance?

It seems that way only to you. No one in the thread, not the OP, not Brad, not me, has said anything negative about romance. The comments all refer to new stores that stock a very narrow range of wares and follow popular trends.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, you have to walk into ours

I read no contempt here for anything but homogeneity. And why focus only on romance genre when cozy cat cafe books also need defending?

Leviathan Bookstore | Official Merchandise | Bonfire An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, located in the heart of St. Louis, near Tower Grove Park

Hey, that new bookstore art we mentioned is now available on merch. Order early and often!

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Only corroborating!

The cover of The Hollow Beast by Christophe Bernard, alongside text recommending it as follows: "If you’re in the mood for a comic extravaganza, look no further than this historical epic featuring family drama, homemade hooch, and a hundred years of seething resentment among the residents of small-town maritime Quebec. It all begins with (what else?) a dispute about a hockey game, and doesn’t end until it’s wrung more fun from its story than you’d ever expect."

Love Hollow Beast!

We have been begging people to reprint this—thank you! And can we call dibs on a @bcdreyer.social visit to St. Louis?

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A drawing of Leviathan Bookstore, a small red brick building with its name lettered over the door and windows, with a green tree next to it. Atop the structure lolls a massive skeleton of a fanciful prehistoric creature resembling a mastodon with tusk askew and a dorsal fin and tail like a whale. It leans one elbow on the tree while perusing an open book in its "hand."

New bookstore art by @kevincannon.bsky.social!

Honestly, if book curation were a Winter Olympic sport, we’d be Norway.

An infographic advertising a 262nd birthday party for the city of St. Louis, hosted at Clements Bar by Leviathan Bookstore on Monday, February 16, featuring books, excerpts thereof, drinks, and trivia. The image accompanying the text shows a red-tinted photo of an illuminated streetscape from about 125 years ago.

Our fair city is turning 262, so we and our good friends at Clements are throwing a party! There will be themed drink specials all evening, and we’ll be on hand with books, performative excerpts, and city trivia. Our Grand/Cherokee collabs have become quite the popular scene, so don’t miss this one!

From our vantage at the intersection of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, even the title is disturbing.

Matthew Knox Averett, author of CANFIELD DRIVE: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis, will discuss his new book on Thursday, February 12, at Leviathan Bookstore in St. Louis at 7 p.m.

For more information:

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Matthew Knox Averett, Author of Canfield Drive — Leviathan Bookstore Join us on the evening of Thursday, February 12 for a conversation with Matthew Knox Averett about his book Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis . If you...

Happy to be at Leviathan Bookstore in St. Louis next week to talk about my new book, CANFIELD DRIVE. #STL

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