Books
Raising the dead
The librarian let Julie Carr look at the box, but she couldn’t look in it.
Carr, a professor in CU’s English department, knew her great-grandfather’s...
Looking past the uniform
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...
Andrew Sean Greer offers more on ‘Less is Lost’
Andrew Sean Greer catapulted onto the literary scene with his 2017 breakout novel Less, an equal-parts poignant and hilarious book that took home the...
Meet the Deadhead Cyclist
In 2017, Stewart Sallo was riding his bike through the calico sandstone Nevada wilderness when his alter ego was born. His feet pedaled to...
Jaipur Literature Festival brings a diverse world of ideas to Boulder
When local psychotherapist Jessie Friedman and her husband were traveling in India a few years ago, they came across a free literary festival in...
Busting the Bailouts
I don’t drive, but every time I bike or walk past a gas station I can’t help reflecting on the fact that the price Americans pay for one gallon of gas is literally more than Exxon Mobil Corp. pays in taxes. In fact, due to federal subsidies — as Jim Hightower ...
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 ...
