Books

Imperfect characters

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Animal behavior specialist Temple Grandin has often said that autism helps her connect with animals. “I think in pictures,” she told Stanford’s School of Medicine...

Spilling the tea

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The story of how Boulder entrepreneur Brook Eddy built the Bhakti Chai company starts on a trip to Bangalore, India, in 2002. There she...

A story about kids hunting giant robots in the desert

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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...

The evolution of Dan Savage

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It’s a funny story, how the wiseass gay theater kid at the video store became America’s most trusted and outspoken sex advocate...

‘How is this perfect?’

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When poet and performer Andrea Gibson was growing up as a closeted queer kid in the days before the internet, there was no roadmap...

Native noir

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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

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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...

Local Jewboy Makes Good

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It’s always noteworthy when a local author makes Boulder proud by releasing a book that gains national attention. When that book sheds light on...

Death is for the birds

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When people talk about losing a loved one, some like to say the grief doesn’t get smaller over time, you just grow bigger around...

Finding the common struggle

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Death has this way of opening doors, of showing the living paths they didn’t realize they could take.  “Mostly it is loss,” mused the German...

Sea change

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The new nonfiction book Over the Seawall is about what writer Stephen Robert Miller terms “disastrous adaptation.” In a nutshell, that means the delusional...

‘Because I like them’

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In grade school letters at the top of a piece of printer paper, 6-year-old Ronan carefully spells out the words “Boys” and “Girls.” Using the couch’s ottoman as his desk, he kneels on the floor near his mother, Eileen Kiernan-Johnson, who discusses her self-...