MLK: SLM in April 09

A brief note on this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday: St. Louis Magazine's April 2009 issue is scheduled to include a one-of-a-kind collaborative project: a new portfolio by esteemed photographer Michael Eastman of St. Louis' MLK Jr. Boulevard, with a companion essay by internationally celebrated writer William H. Gass. (April is the anniversary month of Dr. King's death.) SLM readers will recall that we profiled Eastman last May, and that we published Gass' essay "Shelf Life" in December 2007. We've seen the images and read the essay, and we're quite proud to be publishing both. — Stephen Schenkenberg