- Scott

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Steven Harris <harrissg@slu.edu> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Scott Bonner <sbonner@gmail.com> wrote:
> You mean by Kingshighway and Chippewa?

Yep, that's the one.

> Do you know of anyplace that lists the various St. Louis references? What
> areas in the book refer to what areas in St. Louis -- that kind of thing? I
> live here and I still only get the blindingly obvious ones (ie the giant
> brewery in town is...)

Aw, geeze, beyond the scattered comments I've made across the years?
No, I don't know anything, and I don't think I've kept track of my
comments.

But here are some off the top of my head:

TunFaire's a port city, with a run-down warehouse district by the old
non-much-used port. Main industry in town's the brewery. The Hill is
a neighborhood that contains some powerful people. Racial tensions
are never far beneath the surface in a city that's largely racially
segregated. There have recently been some major shake-ups in the
higher police administration.

Ehh, most of that--all but The Hill--could apply to a dozen American
cities, I guess. Still, TunFaire feels a lot like home to me.

Steve/Stacey

PS
My favorite St. Louisicism in Cook's writing is the dead language
Uchi-Telle in the Black Company series. Uchitelle is a bright neon
sign (of a tire supply store) on the approach to one of the freeways
from a ramp in the city (N. on Big Bend, approaching 40).