An East St. Louis Anthology
Title | An East St. Louis Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Institute for Urban Research |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | East Saint Louis (Ill.) |
ISBN | 9781891442797 |
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).
The St. Louis Anthology
Title | The St. Louis Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan Schuessler |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019-06-04 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1948742454 |
St. Louis is a fragmented place. It’s physically dissected by rivers, highways, walls, and fences, but it’s also a place where one’s race, class, religion, and zip code may as well be cards in a rigged poker game, where the winners’ prize is the ability to ignore the fact that the losers have drastically shorter life expectancies. But it can also be a city of warmth, love, and beauty―especially in its contrasts. Edited by Ryan Schuessler (Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America), the collection features nearly 70 essays penned by St. Louis writers, journalists, clerics, poets, and activists including Aisha Sultan, Galen Gritts, Vivian Gibson, Maja Sadikovic, Nartana Premachandra, Sophia Benoit, Robert Langellier, Samuel Autman, Umar Lee, and more.
East St. Louis Voices
Title | East St. Louis Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Wolter |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Inspiration in literature |
ISBN |
An anthology of poetry from the students of Literature 215 at East St. Louis Community College Center of Southwestern Illinois College about the things that inspire them, race and life in general.
St. Louis Noir
Title | St. Louis Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Phillips |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2016-07-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1617754617 |
“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
Title | Ain't But a Place PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Lyn Early |
Publisher | Missouri History Museum |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781883982287 |
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.
Made in USA
Title | Made in USA PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew J. Theising |
Publisher | Virginia Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781891442216 |
The first ever comprehensive history of this troubled city, the book includes more than 250 photographs amd images of the people and events that shaped East St. Louis. Andrew Theising, a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, examines the city's past from the prominent role it played in the growth of 19th century industrial America to its presently depleted state. For Theising, East St. Louis is more than just a river city suburb; it is an example of industry creating and then abandoning a city, and it is also one of the most misunderstood cities in America.
Spoon River Anthology
Title | Spoon River Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Lee Masters |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2012-03-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486112101 |
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