Books
Eyes on the prize
It was a run-of-the-mill Tuesday morning in Boulder for author and longtime University of Colorado professor Marcia Douglas — until it wasn’t. After ignoring...
Record year
By the end of every year, I end up with a stack of new books about music so tall I end up needing more...
Unearthing what’s beneath
When she’s not writing fiction, Kristie Betts Letter teaches her 10th grade students how to fail.
Not how to do it intentionally, of course, but...
Extracting stories from the industries of the American West
In the ruins of the sugar mill on Madison Avenue in Loveland, one of the buildings has a message painted on the roof: “IT...
A story about kids hunting giant robots in the desert
Just four years ago I was sitting here sending off queries to publishers,” Zoe Hana Mikuta says from across the table at Trident Cafe.
Mikuta...
Local author R.L. Maizes mines the human condition in her charming...
In a 2013 interview on Sirius XM, Anderson Cooper — the television personality and descendant of a line of shipping magnates, millionaire equestrians and...