Books

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...

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...

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...

To write music criticism takes a certain level of self-assurance. That’s pretty obvious: You have to think pretty highly of your own opinion to be motivated to tell others why they should feel that way, too...

John Hendrickson lives in New York City, but the Front Range is where his life first began to take shape. Currently a senior editor...

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-...

Denverite Wendy Fox wins the Colorado Book Award for literary fiction with short story collection about corporate lives

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...

When local psychotherapist Jessie Friedman and her husband were traveling in India a few years ago, they came across a free literary festival in...

It´s every  author’s dream to have her books optioned and turned into film. Author Charlaine Harris is living that dream. Her Sookie Stackhouse series, which reaches 11 books this week with the release of Dead Reckoning, is the basis for HBO’s hit series True Blood...

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...

You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.  Don’t scoff,...