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Leviathan Bookstore
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An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.

https://leviathanbookstore.com/
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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Nov 9
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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!
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.
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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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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February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Happy to be at Leviathan Bookstore in St. Louis next week to talk about my new book, CANFIELD DRIVE. #STL

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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...
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February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Profits today being donated to local immigrant support non-profits.
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January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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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.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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jpbrammer.bsky.social JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19d
a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)
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January 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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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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Letter from Leviathan #81
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January 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Lots of upcoming events at the bookstore, introduced by an acrostic newsletter.

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Letter from Leviathan #80
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January 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Season's greetings from the Leviathan to you and yours!
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."
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Go directly to hell; do not pass Go, do not collect one damn cent.
publisherswkly.bsky.social Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · Dec 17
AI isn’t coming to publishing—it’s already here. PW’s new AI for Publishing Bootcamp gives teams the tools and workflows to keep up.

First session is Feb 11. Early Bird pricing is now open.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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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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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...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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It's 78 degrees in the middle of November
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine
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November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Which of the half-dozen book recommendations in our most recent newsletter is the most interesting to you?

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Letter from Leviathan #71
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November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The newest addition to our bookwear collection is up on Instagram and comes from @bookmoon.bsky.social, which has too much integrity to be on IG itself. @gavingrant.bsky.social @kellylink.bsky.social

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November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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An evening in honor of the 50th anniversary of the last voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald! Books, stories, song, and custom cocktails! Button up your pea coat, pull on your watch cap, and join us! @johnubacon.bsky.social

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A sepia-toned infographic advertising a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Monday, November 10th from 7 to 9pm at Clements Bar, 2626 Cherokee Street. Featuring books by Leviathan Bookstore and drinks by Truckey.
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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gavingrant.bsky.social Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · Oct 24
Good news for @jamescrossley.bsky.social & readers of the leviathanbookstore.com/newsletter-archive: Greer Gilman's agent is going out with a new novel right now. Ok, I weep a bit we're not going to publish it but getting more publishers for her work is fabulous. Who's Greer? Read this:
Screenshot of a recommendation by James Crossley's Letter from Leviathan #70: Cloud & Ashes by Greer Gilman When the days get shorter, I always start thinking about the mysterious, enveloping fantasies of Greer Gilman, who's published too little and whose published writings are too little known. The most recognized among them is Cloud & Ashes, winner of the Tiptree Award and a Mythopoeic Award finalist. It has been described as “a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic fable that invites revisitation.” The Washington Times accurately called it “a rich poetic prose laden with fetching archaisms that's unlike anything else being written today.” The most convincing quotes of all, though, come from Gilman herself. Look at the first line of the book: “He is met at a crossroads on a windy night, the moon in tatters and the mist unclothing stars, the way from Ask to Owlerdale: a man in black, white-headed, with a three-string fiddle in his pack.” It doesn’t matter who the man is or where on earth Owlerdale might be if you’re the sort of reader who perks up her ears at the sound of that language.
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.
October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Free shipping for online orders today, courtesy of @bookshop.org!

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An infographic suggestive of the label on a cardboard parcel. Purple packing tape at the top bears repeated images of the Bookshop.org letter B logo and the phrase "the anti-prime sale." The address label reads "Free Shipping / 13 Hours / 40 Minutes / 45 Seconds" and "Handle with care! This Package Supports Independent Bookstores," also showing a barcode sticker.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Blockbuster author James Patterson is once again opening his wallet to offer holiday bonuses to booksellers. If there's one you think is great, at our store or any other indie shop in the US, nominate them! All of them--there's no limit to how many you can champion!

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James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program 2025
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October 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We're one of only 5 stores in the US hosting a midnight release party for Pynchon's SHADOW TICKET, publishing on Tuesday. Join us for festivities starting at 11pm on Monday, Oct. 6!

Details at leviathanbookstore.com/events
An infographic promoting a Midnight Release Party for Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket, starting at 11pm on Monday, October 6 at Leviathan Bookstore, 3211 South Grand Blvd. Refreshments, trivia w/prizes, & novels for sale. An image of the book's sepia-toned cover, showing a neon-lit 1930s Budapest street, with title and author name in coral and purple sans serif type appears next to the informational text, along with a cartoon drawing of the author with a paper bag over his face. A copy of Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket stands upright on a light-colored wooden tabletop, next to a black canvas tote bag advertising the title and author name in coral and purple, topped by a black baseball cap with Shadow Ticket written on the front in purple.
October 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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justinkingdesigns.bsky.social Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · Sep 26
Fo sho!! I got my dealer around the corner @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Join us at @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social tomorrow night for the 7:30pm screening of One Battle After Another, based on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. Your popcorn is on us if we see you wearing our bookstore merch!
Poster for Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another with Thomas Pynchon’s photo superimposed onto Leonardo DiCaprio’s head
September 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM