Books

Learning to love science fiction with Octavia E. Butler

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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...

#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,...

A perceived madness better lost to time

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In her debut novel, Denverite Nina Shope explores the terror of a woman diagnosed with hysteria

Her dark materials

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Hillary Leftwich wanted her son to know what his first years on Earth were like — and she wanted him to know the whole,...

Your neighborhood book club

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It’s hard to keep up with modern technology, especially when the Internet constantly pops out a new platform to be obsessed with, each one shortening our attention span with every click...

Extracting stories from the industries of the American West

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In the ruins of the sugar mill on Madison Avenue in Loveland, one of the buildings has a message painted on the roof: “IT...

Haven in Innisfree

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The couple opening the nation’s third poetry-only bookstore on the Hill knew of the uphill battle they would face trying to make their living off an art form many consider stuffy and inaccessible. In fact, according to Brian Buckley, who co-owns Innisfree Poetry ...

Parent trap

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Many parents want to stop time. They’d like to keep their children small and innocent and exactly a certain age — if not forever,...

So much loneliness so close to home

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Jon Bassoff finds inspiration for dark novel out on the Great Plains

‘We are stardust’

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Ellen Mahoney, Boulder-based journalist and co-author of the young adult nonfiction book Earthrise: My adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut, can’t remember a time...

Science fiction for the masses

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In a world that plunks authors into brushed-aside categories like science fiction, fantasy and romance, one author is tiring of the “guilty pleasure” label...

Fast times

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Twelve years ago, Steve Hendricks was looking for a way to shed some unwanted pounds. The former politico turned journalist was also seeking something...