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...
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...
Her dark materials
Hillary Leftwich wanted her son to know what his first years on Earth were like — and she wanted him to know the whole,...
Eyes on the prize
It was a run-of-the-mill Tuesday morning in Boulder for author and longtime University of Colorado professor Marcia Douglas — until it wasn’t. After ignoring...
Parent trap
Many parents want to stop time. They’d like to keep their children small and innocent and exactly a certain age — if not forever,...
Slashing the slasher
Celebrated horror author Stephen Graham Jones is known for transcending the trappings of genre writing to elevate the form into the realm of literary...
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...
Knock knock
Novelist Paul G. Tremblay was on a flight home to New England when the idea for his 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End...
How women write the west
There’s no one American West for everyone, but stereotypes abound depending on where you look. Here in Colorado, we get a lot of cracks...
Words of comfort
John Hendrickson lives in New York City, but the Front Range is where his life first began to take shape. Currently a senior editor...
Ride or die
If you spend much time cruising Boulder’s 300-plus miles of bikeway, you’ve probably crossed paths with Ryan Van Duzer. Even if you haven’t, you...
Record year
By the end of every year, I end up with a stack of new books about music so tall I end up needing more...
