Books
Range life
Peter Heller is nothing if not consistent. In interviews going back more than a decade to the publication of his first best-selling novel, The...
Local writer Ben Corbett discusses Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy
It has been more than four years since the literary powder keg known as Hunter S. Thompson exploded off this mortal coil with a defiant shotgun blast. He was a figure of great controversy who served as America’s national conscience during one of the most tumultuous ...
Snow snakes, boy princesses and mountain men
While teaching elementary school kids how to ski in places like Copper Mountain and Eldora Mountain Resort, Annie Fox saw her fair share of spills on the slopes. "On no, you fell! The snow snake got you!" was the popular joke with ski instructors who tried to make ...
Through science, nature’s wonders
It is not the preferred style of Professor Richard Dawkins, the famed evolutionary biologist and militant atheist crusader, to preach to the choir...
How women write the west
There’s no one American West for everyone, but stereotypes abound depending on where you look. Here in Colorado, we get a lot of cracks...
Learning to love science fiction with Octavia E. Butler
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...
The (nearly) lost art of sportswriting a proud tradition soldiers on
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 ...
