Fire at the Stymie Club-Stories from the Mississippi to Chesapeake Country - Martin, Sandra Olivetti
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Fire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of stories set mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland, along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra Olivetti Martin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, Bay Weekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories for that paper.. The title of the books stems from Sandra's girlhood, in St. Louis above a restaurant and supper club operated by her father, a charming bookmaker, and her mother, the glamorous daughter of Italian immigrants. Her family's Stymie Club offers an…mehr

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Fire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of stories set mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland, along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra Olivetti Martin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, Bay Weekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories for that paper.. The title of the books stems from Sandra's girlhood, in St. Louis above a restaurant and supper club operated by her father, a charming bookmaker, and her mother, the glamorous daughter of Italian immigrants. Her family's Stymie Club offers an enticing setting for the book's first story with its extralegal doings and the perfumy sensuality of female clientele and waitresses looking out for precocious little Sandra. The book also includes features and columns written for the flourishing sister independent, Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois, and reflecting the ethos of a capital deeply connected to Abraham Lincoln in an era when women's rights and freedoms took center stage in lawmaking. Journalism continues with memoirs of her life and family into the 19th century. Other memoirs are personal essays of deeper intimacy.
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Sandra Olivetti Martin is best known as founding editor, publisher andcolumnist at Bay Weekly, which began in Chesapeake country 30years ago as New Bay Times. She is a graduate of St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and holds two degrees from St. Louis University.She has taught writing at colleges anduniversities in Illinois, Missouri and Maryland and has written forthe Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and magazines. Shenow is publisher at New Bay Books, which produced 15 titles in itsfirst two years. Sandra grew up in St. Louis above the legendaryStymie Club, from which the book's title is derived, and lives nowalong the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland.