St. Louis Post-Dispatch Metro columnist Tony Messenger offers an expose of modern-day debtor’s prisons and how they’ve destroyed lives in Missouri and beyond.

Author Yangsze Choo dives into the mythical and historic inspiration of her gripping third novel, The Fox Wife, a tale of lost loves and mystery.

Author Patrick Murphy revisits the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis in a large new book titled “Prelude to a Century.” It goes on sale everywhere in April 2024.

HEC catches up with bestselling St. Louis based author Laurell K. Hamilton as she publishes her 30th book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series.

Keith Boykin explores he historical and ongoing impact of white supremacy in America in “Why Does Everything Have to be About Race?”.

Curtis Chin’s memoir serves up life lessons from Detroit’s Cass Corridor, blending family, politics, and Chinese American history.

Author Alex Michaelides entertains in this talk about his writing process, Hollywood and Greek influences and the book he said was the most fun to write.

Mariana Zapata, Queen of the Slow Burn Romance, gives her subjects the love they want in “All Rhodes Lead Here.”

Essayist Margaret Renkl’s “The Comfort of Crows” is a literary devotional, of sorts, a call to to slow down and closely observe the natural world around us.

Adia Harvey Wingfield’s Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It calls for racial equity in the workplace.