, St. Louis鈥� oldest literary magazine, will release its 100th issue this summer. And while that鈥檚 a big milestone on its own, the 43-year-old organization has lots to celebrate even beyond the long existence of the biannual publication itself.
That鈥檚 according to River Styx鈥檚 new editor, Jason Lee Brown, who took the reins back in November.
From reading series to community outreach and creative-writing workshops, he said on Friday鈥檚 St. Louis on the Air, River Styx鈥檚 work informs the region鈥檚 local literary community in a wide variety of ways.
In conversation with host Don Marsh as well as writer Adrian Todd Zuniga, Brown talked up the organization鈥檚 annual fundraiser, the 2018 Literary Feast, which gets underway at 7 p.m. Friday.
Zuniga will be the featured reader at the event. He鈥檚 the author of 鈥淐ollision Theory,鈥� his debut novel, as well as the host of the performance-oriented reading series .
Listen to the full discussion 鈥� which touched on the critical role of independent bookstores as well as journals, reading events and more 鈥� here:
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When: 7 p.m. Friday, May 11, 2018
When: SqWires Restaurant and Annex (1415 S. 18th St., St. Louis, MO 63104)
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