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Subterranean Books

From high culture to subculture

About Me

Subterranean Books is located at 6275 Delmar in the heart of the University City/St. Louis City Delmar Loop. We're open Monday-Friday 11:00 to 8:00, Friday-Saturday 11:00 to 10:00, and Sunday 12:00 to 6:00. The store is operated by four charming souls: Kelly, Alex, Kaveh, and Afsaneh. The store opened in 2000 and has been a haven for book lovers ever since. We’re proud to have been selected Best Bookstore by the Riverfront Times five six seven times, and we continue to offer the unusual, the classic, and the subversive to our customers. And hey, we’re independent, friendly, and growing. Check us out! The store may be contacted at 314.862.6100.

My Interests

fiction, literature in translation, the beats, art, poetry, surrealism, cultural studies, erotica, history, film, music, nature, religion, children's literature, cookbooks, photography, crime fiction, speculative fiction, counterculture, independent thought

I'd like to meet:

Book lovers

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Batman

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Joker

Music:

Brazilian Girls, John Cale, Gogol Bordello, Pixies, The Waterboys, John Coltrane, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Philip Glass, the Police, Dave Tarras, the Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Billy Bragg, The Jam, The Clash, Spoon, Regina Spektor, Ray LaMontagne

Movies:

Dazed and Confused, Valley Girl, A Room with a View, The Sweet Hereafter, Goodfellas, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, My Architect, American Movie, An American Werewolf in London, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dracula (1931), The Wolf Man, O Brother Where Art Thou?

Television:

Bill Moyers, Dexter, Lost, Freeks and Geeks, Flight of the Conchords, Heroes

Books:

Diane Ackerman, Banksy, Octavia Butler, Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Angela Carter, William Cooper, Douglas Coupland, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rikki Ducornet, Charles Fort, Allen Ginsberg, Hermann Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Chuck Klosterman, Jon Krakauer, Erik Larson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kelly Link, Haruki Murakami, The Onion, George Orwell, Chuck Palahniuk, Ann Patchett, Davy Rothbart, Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, Cindy Sherman, Peter Singer, Zadie Smith, Taschen, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Thompson, William T. Vollmann, Kurt Vonnegut, Frank Warren, Alice Waters, Saul Williams, Jeanette Winterson, Howard Zinn

Heroes:

Thomas Disch

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Octavia Butler

My Blog

Check out this event: Henry "Chunklet" Owings at Subterranean Books

Hosted By: Subterranean BooksWhen: Monday Oct 27, 2008 at 7:00 PMWhere Subterranean Books6275 DelmarSt. Louis, Missouri|26 63130United StatesDescription:Subterranean Books Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Subterranean Books on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:04:00 PST

We’re having a sale, and only our cyber friends will know.

We're having a sale from Friday Oct 24 through Sunday Oct 26 and the only people we're telling are our cyber friends.  Or maybe that's virtual friends--but I truly believe that there are real bod...
Posted by Subterranean Books on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:36:00 PST

Vote Early, Vote Often

Jason: Now that all this Super Tuesday business is over (maybe), it's time to talk about the real issue of this election...(more)
Posted by Subterranean Books on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:15:00 PST

Ive Read 1/26/08

Kelly's books are...
Posted by Subterranean Books on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

On the Pleasures of Rereading

Jason: I find one of the great joys in life to be rereading books. This is both...(more)
Posted by Subterranean Books on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:37:00 PST

Helvetica!

Jason: I'd never given much thought to typeface. It's just there, like air, water, or corrupt politicians. Then I heard...(more)
Posted by Subterranean Books on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:46:00 PST

Bestsellers

December's bestsellers are here. And 2007's bestsellers are here.
Posted by Subterranean Books on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:42:00 PST

Boys, Boys, Boys, uh, and then some more

Kelly: The position of National Ambassador for Young People's Literature has been created and the first helmsman is...(more)
Posted by Subterranean Books on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:39:00 PST

I’ve Read 12/31

Kelly on two books here.
Posted by Subterranean Books on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:37:00 PST

Jason’s Top 5 Reads for 2007

Can be found here.
Posted by Subterranean Books on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:35:00 PST