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...
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...
A story about kids hunting giant robots in the desert
Just four years ago I was sitting here sending off queries to publishers,” Zoe Hana Mikuta says from across the table at Trident Cafe.
Mikuta...
SUBVERSIVE
Bill Ayers, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074...
So much loneliness so close to home
Jon Bassoff finds inspiration for dark novel out on the Great Plains
Scientifically funny
For their book, The Humor Code, journalist Joel Warner and University of Colorado Boulder Professor Peter McGraw spent a year travelling the world in search of funny. They searched Africa for its infamous laughing disease, strolled through the South American jungle ...
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 ...
