Books
Freedom fighter
In writing a historical novel about Dutch World War II resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, author Buzzy Jackson didn’t feel like she needed to embellish...
This is going to hurt
Local poet Jade Lascelles doesn’t shrink from what she describes as “the collapsed moment, the moment of a brutality.” She approaches it, tries to...
Native noir
Indigenous art is finally having its long-overdue moment in American culture. From TV shows Reservation Dogs and Dark Winds with predominantly Native American casts,...
Thompson’s last stand
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...
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,...
Boulder P.I.
Denver author Erika Krouse recently won the 2023 Colorado Book Award for creative non-fiction with her memoir Tell Me Everything, an account of her...
‘We are stardust’
Ellen Mahoney, Boulder-based journalist and co-author of the young adult nonfiction book Earthrise: My adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut, can’t remember a time...
Filling the gaps of experience
There must be something in the mountain air. More and more young writers are coming to Boulder from far-flung American locales, unlearning who they thought they were as artists and people, and then (usually) moving on, spreading the cool, creative calm of Colorado ...
