Books

Dead And Well-Read

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It´s every  author’s dream to have her books optioned and turned into film. Author Charlaine Harris is living that dream. Her Sookie Stackhouse series, which reaches 11 books this week with the release of Dead Reckoning, is the basis for HBO’s hit series True Blood...

Confronting the past

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It’s difficult to imagine that Anthony Swofford, who once had sex with a girl in the same room as his dying brother and dined on greasy Waffle House food with a crack dealer and a couple of prostitutes, could become such a family man...

Snow snakes, boy princesses and mountain men

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While teaching elementary school kids how to ski in places like Copper Mountain and Eldora Mountain Resort, Annie Fox saw her fair share of spills on the slopes. "On no, you fell! The snow snake got you!" was the popular joke with ski instructors who tried to make ...

Words | Week of April 30, 2015

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Thursday, April 30...

Words | Week of Sept 11, 2014

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Thursday, Sept 11...

Poetry

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The Rise...

Colin Meloy’s dark, wild fantasy

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When you think the name Colin Meloy, you think The Decemberists, the Grammy-nominated indie-rock band he has fronted for a decade. You think catchy, theatrically crafted songs and folk-rock that actually has an edge...

Poetry

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American Life in Poetry: Column 527 & 528...

Thompson’s last stand

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In 2001, convicted murderer Lisl Auman was 13 months into a life sentence when she wrote a letter to the author of a book that had recently brought her some joy in prison...

‘How is this perfect?’

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When poet and performer Andrea Gibson was growing up as a closeted queer kid in the days before the internet, there was no roadmap...

Mapping our history of violence

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Poet Jessica Lawson started out writing what she thought would be a book of poems themed around maps. “Shortly into the writing process, Donald Trump...

Words | Week of Jan. 22, 2015

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Saturday, Jan. 24...