Books
Words | Week of April 3, 2014
Friday, April 4 Cooperman, Hollander, and Hutchison . 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. The Humor Code — Peter McGraw and Joel Warner with Ryan Warner. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Ave...
New fairy tale novel aims to be ‘Shrek’ for adults
Usually fairy tales start with a beautiful princess waiting for Prince Charming to whisk them away. But in the new book CURSES! A F***ed Up Fairy Tale, Julie Kazimer takes a different approach — Cinderella gets hit by a bus on page two.Left with the mission of ...
The allure of the idealized auteur
To extract Shelley Duvall’s traumatized, haggard performance in The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick made her life a living hell for the duration of shooting...
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...
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...


















