Books
Imperfect characters
Animal behavior specialist Temple Grandin has often said that autism helps her connect with animals.
“I think in pictures,” she told Stanford’s School of Medicine...
So much loneliness so close to home
Jon Bassoff finds inspiration for dark novel out on the Great Plains
Finding the common struggle
Death has this way of opening doors, of showing the living paths they didn’t realize they could take.
“Mostly it is loss,” mused the German...
A perceived madness better lost to time
In her debut novel, Denverite Nina Shope explores the terror of a woman diagnosed with hysteria
Charles Bukowski uncovered
Absence of the Hero, Vol. 2, the latest book of uncollected Charles Bukowski writings, begins with “The Reason Behind Reason,” a poignant tale of a professional baseball player who has somewhat of a psychotic break while playing the outfield. In the middle of a game...
Of adverbs and experimentation
Of course I liked Secrets & Lies, a collection of short fiction written by Josh Gross. I like Josh Gross. We dated in college, hated each other until I was in graduate school, and then became friends. And there’s enough of him in those pages for it to feel, after ...
