Leviathan Bookstore

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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Moving image of a skeleton spray painting anti-ICE messages on an ice dispenser

Profits today being donated to local immigrant support non-profits.

Noticing that Wikipedia calls the movie a "crime drama," which sure? Like Gravity's Rainbow is a history of rocketry.

If it reaches Peter Greenaway superfans, they'll remind you that it's The Cook, the Thief, HIS Wife, &HER Lover

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

No storm can stop us!

Shhhh . . .

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Favorite Fiction of 2025 It's always silly to state definitively what the "best" books of the year are, so I'm simply calling this a list of favorites.

Two of those on our year's best list!

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With Holocaust Remembrance Day coming up next week, James (perhaps unwisely) handed me the @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social newsletter reins. (You subscribe, right?)

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This is going to help us hit our Arcadia minimum, thanks

Hey, we do our best

Seems fine on this end, so not sure what's up. If you go to the Newsletter tab on our website, you'll find the same info there.

Lots of upcoming events at the bookstore, introduced by an acrostic newsletter.

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First-edition cover of Meet Me in St. Louis by Sally Benson, showing a drawing of World's Fairgoers in Edwardian garb standing by a balustrade before a pond, behind which is a fanciful, ornate, domed building.

Not for the first time, pitching you on Sally Benson.

An Edward Gorey engraving-style illustration of giant veiled polar bear standing upright on ice skates carrying a tray and handing an item from it to a small boy standing on a cliff before him. A banner draped in layers across the gray sky reads, "A Future Unremembered Poet of the Seventeeth Century accepts a Christmas Cookie from the Great Veiled Bear."

Season's greetings from the Leviathan to you and yours!

Go directly to hell; do not pass Go, do not collect one damn cent.

A Long Dark Night: Christmas Cocktails & Spooky Stories — Leviathan Bookstore When the nights grow long and cold, there’s nothing better than huddling together to purge our collective fears with some cathartic tale telling, which is why reading scary stories together was once a...

We're featuring these at an event this month. Join us!

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If he carves a mastodon (or a whale) on a book, we might be in the market for it.

Leviathan Bookstore on Instagram: "“It is the eighteenth of November. I have got used to that thought.” That’s the beginning of Solvej Balle’s ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, translated by Barbara Have... In this engaging and thought-provoking novel, Solvej Balle masterfully weaves a story that explores the intricacies of time and memory through the lens of a single day that repeats over and over again...

We shared this on Instagram yesterday, but if On the Calculation of Volume teaches us anything, it's that every day is November 18th.

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"The man from Stratford never wrote those plays."

With the right graphic, I think we could sell shirts that said Your Goat Has Sailed for Byzantium.

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

It's 78 degrees in the middle of November