Books
How to escape the office and never go back
Denverite Wendy Fox wins the Colorado Book Award for literary fiction with short story collection about corporate lives
Words of comfort
John Hendrickson lives in New York City, but the Front Range is where his life first began to take shape. Currently a senior editor...
Searching is the salve
There’s a sense of foreboding that hovers over the pages of Khadijah Queen’s new collection of poetry — a heavy nimbostratus cloud of dread.
“In...
Stone cold and striking hot
There will always be stories that slip through the cracks. Whether a function of human capacity, or our proclivity for comfort over truth, the...
‘How is this perfect?’
When poet and performer Andrea Gibson was growing up as a closeted queer kid in the days before the internet, there was no roadmap...
Pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman: Losing his religion
To write music criticism takes a certain level of self-assurance. That’s pretty obvious: You have to think pretty highly of your own opinion to be motivated to tell others why they should feel that way, too...
Jaipur Literature Festival brings a diverse world of ideas to Boulder
When local psychotherapist Jessie Friedman and her husband were traveling in India a few years ago, they came across a free literary festival in...
Learning to love science fiction with Octavia E. Butler
Almost two decades ago, my sister gifted me Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred for Christmas and I admit I was skeptical. My preference for nonfiction...
#InstaNovels
You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.
Don’t scoff,...
The potency of possibility
Author Carter Wilson’s writing career started with one macabre question: “If three people are murdered in the exact same way, at the exact same...
A perceived madness better lost to time
In her debut novel, Denverite Nina Shope explores the terror of a woman diagnosed with hysteria
