Arts & Sciences

His writing career is a story in itself, a journey from journalist to screenwriter and New York Times best-selling author.

Jazz at Holmes features professional musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in a relaxed, coffeehouse-style setting.

The series, which is free and open to the public, also includes forums on education finance and monetary policy.

Photo by Mary ButkusWilliam F. Tate was installed as an Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences Sept. 6 in Holmes Lounge.

In addition, King and Arturo Fernandez will set excerpts from two of King’s works on students in the Performing Arts Department.

He’s the author of more than 30 books, including The Silo, The Hunt, Visitants and The Hierarchy of Sheep.

The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy will kick off its fall forum series with a half-day symposium on “Taxing Temptation: Excise Taxes and Health” from 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 23 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The series, which is free and open to the public, also includes forums on education finance (Nov. 4) and monetary policy (Nov. 30).

CarcaterraLorenzo Carcaterra has made a career out of writing gritty, powerful novels that become bestsellers. He will discuss these compellingly human stories of crime and violence for the Assembly Series on Wednesday, September 21 at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Karl Hagstrom Miller, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas, will speak on “Talking Machine World: Music and Globalization in the Early Twentieth Century” at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23.

St. Louis pianist Patrick McClellan will continue the fall Jazz at Holmes series with a performance from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22.