Books
Her dark materials
Hillary Leftwich wanted her son to know what his first years on Earth were like — and she wanted him to know the whole,...
Knock knock
Novelist Paul G. Tremblay was on a flight home to New England when the idea for his 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End...
No chasm to cross
If we’re to trust Thurston Moore, “Rock stars can’t be poets, which sucks.”
The line is from a poem by Moore titled “By The Lightswitch.”...
‘Punch your way into the party’
Author Erin K. Barnes, who writes under the pen name GoGo Germaine, calls herself a “pretty typical Coloradan.” But the adolescent at the center...
Local Jewboy Makes Good
It’s always noteworthy when a local author makes Boulder proud by releasing a book that gains national attention. When that book sheds light on...
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...
David Foster Wallace: An American literary great revealed
“It sounded like the voice that I thought in,” says David Lipsky about the captivating literary style of novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. “Which of course is what you’re trying to do as a writer. And he’d done it! It was amazing! I was so thrilled. I faxed...
