Books

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 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-...

There will always be stories that slip through the cracks. Whether a function of human capacity, or our proclivity for comfort over truth, the...

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

Celebrated horror author Stephen Graham Jones is known for transcending the trappings of genre writing to elevate the form into the realm of literary...

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...

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

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...

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

Short story collections with a shared narrative thread are having a moment in the Colorado literary world. With Rachel King’s Bratwurst Haven winning the 2023...

If your organization is planning an event of any kind, please email Caitlin at [email protected].  EVENTS Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center presents: ‘If You Just Believe.’...

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,...