Laura Spencer

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Laura Spencer

Share While writing his latest book, Soman Chainani moved to St. Louis, Missouri. The pace of life, he says, after more than two decades in New York, is a little slower. “I like it, it’s much quieter,” Chainani says. “I feel like I can think.” But the book, “Coven,” which is illustrated by Joel Gennari, is anything but quiet. Their first graphic novel collaboration draws on one of Chainani’s childhood passions.

3 weeks ago | kcur.org | Laura Spencer

While writing his latest book, Soman Chainani moved to St. Louis, Missouri. The pace of life, he says, after more than two decades in New York, is a little slower. “I like it, it’s much quieter,” Chainani says. “I feel like I can think.”But the book, “Coven,” which is illustrated by Joel Gennari, is anything but quiet. Their first graphic novel collaboration draws on one of Chainani’s childhood passions. “I loved monster movies,” says Chainani, who grew up in Miami, Florida, in the 1980s.

Dec 13, 2024 | kcur.org | Laura Spencer

If you live in an older neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, you might have a black-and-white photograph of your house with a hat-wearing man displaying a numbered signboard. The images date back to a federal project in 1940 to clean up property records in Jackson County. And more than 50,000 of these photos still exist. Now, a new Kansas City Public Library site called KC-1940 is making the collection even more accessible.

Dec 3, 2024 | kcstudio.org | Laura Spencer

Photographs, postcards, a letter from Walt Disney, and other items from the Library’s collection are on view in “Disney100: The Exhibition” at Union Station. Right before the entrance to the main exhibit for “Disney100: The Exhibition” at Union Station – the first display case in the “Local Connections” gallery includes objects from the Kansas City Public Library’s Missouri Valley Special Collections. Although Walt Disney made it big in California, his roots were in the Midwest.

Nov 21, 2024 | writer.org | Laura Spencer

Sessions: 1 SessionDay(s): Thursday Time: 7:00 PM EST - 8:30 PM EST Cost: $ 30.00 for members $ 40.00 for non-members Participants will discuss the practicalities of developing the bones of a short story collection. The group will be invited to share details about their own projects and work together to plot next steps. Shannon Sanders is the author of the linked short story collection Company, which won the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, was named...