Books

Pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman: Losing his religion

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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...

Slashing the slasher

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

Stone cold and striking hot

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

‘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-...

How to escape the office and never go back

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

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...

Words of comfort

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

Freedom fighter

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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...

Jaipur Literature Festival brings a diverse world of ideas to Boulder

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

Dead And Well-Read

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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...

#InstaNovels

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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,...

The potency of possibility

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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...