Books
Charles Bukowski uncovered
Absence of the Hero, Vol. 2, the latest book of uncollected Charles Bukowski writings, begins with “The Reason Behind Reason,” a poignant tale of a professional baseball player who has somewhat of a psychotic break while playing the outfield. In the middle of a game...
Sanctuary and exile
From working as a guard in Sing Sing prison to inspecting meat in a Nebraska beef plant, Ted Conover has taken on some difficult...
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...
‘Punch your way into the party’
Author Erin K. Barnes, who writes under the pen name GoGo Germaine, calls herself a “pretty typical Coloradan.” But the adolescent at the center...
Juliet Wittman on the intimate power of food
Before I knew Juliet Wittman as a writer — as acclaimed theater critic, investigative journalist, food writing professor and author — I knew her...
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...
Book excerpt: ‘I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of...
In 2015, Baltimore had an uprising against police violence much like those occurring around the country this summer. When it happened, we were both...
‘How is this perfect?’
When poet and performer Andrea Gibson was growing up as a closeted queer kid in the days before the internet, there was no roadmap...
Spilling the tea
The story of how Boulder entrepreneur Brook Eddy built the Bhakti Chai company starts on a trip to Bangalore, India, in 2002. There she...
Local author R.L. Maizes mines the human condition in her charming...
In a 2013 interview on Sirius XM, Anderson Cooper — the television personality and descendant of a line of shipping magnates, millionaire equestrians and...
How do you survive alone?
Imagine waking up to find yourself completely alone. Your town is abandoned. No family, no friends, no baristas making coffee or postal service workers...
New children’s book deals with domestic violence
In her day job as a detective in the Longmont Police’s...