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David Foster Wallace: An American literary great revealed

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“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...

Baseball in the summer

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  Although the team is currently struggling just to hover near .500, not much in Colorado says “summer” like the Rockies. With a great downtown ballpark in Denver, stellar starting pitching and exciting young hitters, the reigning NL Wild Card qualifiers ...

Carr

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Nicolas Carr: The Glass Cage 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 5, Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303- 440-7666, $12...

Words | Week of April 23, 2015

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Thursday, April 23...

New children’s book deals with domestic violence

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In her day job as a detective in the Longmont Police’s...

This is your brain on the Internet

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Ever get the feeling you just can’t concentrate like you used to? Feel like your brain is stuck on overload and you can’t put together a coherent thought? Never fear, the Internet is here for you to self-diagnose and treat whatever ails you. Yet, according to author ...

Looking past the uniform

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A uniform solidifies a sense of sameness, but as Helen Thorpe set out to write her latest book, Soldier Girls, she realized that behind the uniform, experiences are anything but alike...

Unearthing what’s beneath

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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...

Words | Week of Oct. 30, 2014

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Thursday, Oct. 30...

Learning to walk in India

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Standing in a bus station in Mumbai, Molly Brown lit a fresh cigarette off the smoldering stub of another — it’s not that the American nurse didn’t know better, it’s just that she didn’t give a damn anymore. Extreme pain will do that...

Poetry

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American Life in Poetry: Column 551...

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Wednesday, May 28: Rick Reilly’s Tiger, Meet My Sister, Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. 7:30 p.m...