Leviathan Bookstore

@leviathanbookstore.bsky.social

An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis. https://leviathanbookstore.com/

The Copper Age is over: The bank told us this week we couldn’t get any more pennies. Ending production of them was a good idea, but we're still a little sad. Once these little guys in our cash drawer are gone, we’ll be rounding off all cash purchases made in the store. We’ll miss you, Abe.

A close-up overhead view of about a score of pennies, most of them dirty or scuffed, in a cash register drawer

A deep cut from 1909 for International Transgender Day of Visibility: Beatrice the Sixteenth, a genderfluid utopia by an international legal expert and activist who defied the gender binary more than a century ago. In the Radium Age series from @mitpress.bsky.social. bookshop.org/a/98349/9780...

Beatrice the Sixteenth

Check out Beatrice the Sixteenth - <b>A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate world&mdash;before the concept of gender.</b><br><br>Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of t...

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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.