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Book events | Week of Feb. 6

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Thursday, January 6 Karen Douglass. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495- 3303. Caregiving for the Genius — by Jane Barton. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070. Scent of Butterflies — by Dora ...

ReGenesis

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Yuri Popovich sits silently in the lotus position on Mars, his heart registering just one beat a minute, as Robert Dresner’s thought-provoking evolutionary novel ReGenesis opens...

The (nearly) lost art of sportswriting a proud tradition soldiers on

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On vacation in Oakland the other night, I had the unique (and arguably profound) experience of 10,000 Athletics fans vocally battling 10,000 transplanted New York Yankees fans throughout a close game, and my thoughts somehow turned to academia, and writing. Over my ...

Poetry

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Words | Week of May 8, 2014

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The potency of possibility

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Author Carter Wilson’s writing career started with one macabre question: “If three people are murdered in the exact same way, at the exact same...

Learning to love science fiction with Octavia E. Butler

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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...

Haven in Innisfree

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The couple opening the nation’s third poetry-only bookstore on the Hill knew of the uphill battle they would face trying to make their living off an art form many consider stuffy and inaccessible. In fact, according to Brian Buckley, who co-owns Innisfree Poetry ...

Words | Week of May 1, 2014

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Words | Week of June 12, 2014

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Punk rock and poetry

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Today, Patti Smith — widely considered the godmother of punk — is a Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres in France, and an acclaimed author whose fascinating new book, Just Kids, is a recent National Book Award winner ...