Books
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...
Science fiction for the masses
In a world that plunks authors into brushed-aside categories like science fiction, fantasy and romance, one author is tiring of the “guilty pleasure” label...
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
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...
Dead And Well-Read
It´s every author’s dream to have her books optioned and turned into film. Author Charlaine Harris is living that dream. Her Sookie Stackhouse series, which reaches 11 books this week with the release of Dead Reckoning, is the basis for HBO’s hit series True Blood...
Book excerpt: ‘I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of...
In 2015, Baltimore had an uprising against police violence much like those occurring around the country this summer. When it happened, we were both...
Animal instinct
David Sedaris has an odd relationship with animals. By his own admission he has no use for them in close quarters, but is infatuated with the raw and often ugly lives of creatures in their native habitats...
Local writer Ben Corbett discusses Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy
It has been more than four years since the literary powder keg known as Hunter S. Thompson exploded off this mortal coil with a defiant shotgun blast. He was a figure of great controversy who served as America’s national conscience during one of the most tumultuous ...
