Books
Dammed river
The Colorado River has served as a centerpiece for so much of the mythology and literature written about the American West.
From books like John...
Where the wild things are
Boulder parents looking for the perfect place to take their kids outside don’t have to go farther than the National Center for Atmospheric Research...
The magic that wasn’t
Marrying into a family of fervent Disney fans might typically mean you end up riding Space Mountain more than you ever thought you would....
Pagediving
It was a great year for new books on music. I was able to get through a giant stack of them in the last...
Coyote masks
You can tell a lot about a person from the way they say the word “coyote.”
The conventional wisdom is that people west of the...
Sea change
The new nonfiction book Over the Seawall is about what writer Stephen Robert Miller terms “disastrous adaptation.” In a nutshell, that means the delusional...
Spilling the tea
The story of how Boulder entrepreneur Brook Eddy built the Bhakti Chai company starts on a trip to Bangalore, India, in 2002. There she...
This is going to hurt
Local poet Jade Lascelles doesn’t shrink from what she describes as “the collapsed moment, the moment of a brutality.” She approaches it, tries to...
Freedom fighter
In writing a historical novel about Dutch World War II resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, author Buzzy Jackson didn’t feel like she needed to embellish...
Book report
As usual, the state’s readers are blessed with an abundance of literary riches. This fall, the writing community in Colorado brings the following offerings:...