Books
Writing the unwritten
All of us are haunted — by vestiges of the past, and, as Hannah Nordhaus poignantly observes in American Ghost, by the ghosts of who we thought we were or thought we would become. Her story is a different kind of personal haunting, though, as she writes of the ghost ...
Changing hearts and minds 3 mph at a time
You could say Jonathon Stalls is a full-time pedestrian. You could probably glean that from his toe shoes, well-worn walking stick and routine propensity...
A ‘haunted house comedy’ at Stories on Stage
According to Anthony Powell, artistic director for Stories on Stage, Stone Animals is a “haunted house comedy.”
The theater group will bring Miami-based author Kelly...
Bringing it all back home
When Dale Bridges was working as the arts and culture editor for Boulder Weekly in the early 2000s, he couldn’t have predicted he’d publish...
Fifty shades of grey
Alot of books get sent to the BW newsroom. So many that we play the pre-Christmas game of feeling the manila envelopes and trying to guess their contents, the most popular answers being supernatural young adult romance, TV talking head’s unified theory of something ...
‘Because I like them’
In grade school letters at the top of a piece of printer paper, 6-year-old Ronan carefully spells out the words “Boys” and “Girls.” Using the couch’s ottoman as his desk, he kneels on the floor near his mother, Eileen Kiernan-Johnson, who discusses her self-...
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...
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...
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