Books

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 ...

Andrew Sean Greer offers more on ‘Less is Lost’

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Andrew Sean Greer catapulted onto the literary scene with his 2017 breakout novel Less, an equal-parts poignant and hilarious book that took home the...

Pagediving

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It was a great year for new books on music. I was able to get through a giant stack of  them in the last...

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...

So much loneliness so close to home

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

Coyote masks

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You can tell a lot about a person from the way they say the word “coyote.”  The conventional wisdom is that people west of the...

Changing hearts and minds 3 mph at a time

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You could say Jonathon Stalls is a full-time pedestrian. You could probably glean that from his toe shoes, well-worn walking stick and routine propensity...

‘Be wary of windows’

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"Young women, be wary of windows as you sit shuttling needle through a full white moon of cloth. ...” So opens the poem “The Fall” in a...

Punk rock and poetry

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Today, Patti Smith — widely considered the godmother of punk — is a Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres in France, and an acclaimed author whose fascinating new book, Just Kids, is a recent National Book Award winner ...

Sex Workers Unite, Melinda Chateauvert

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Friday, February 7: Sex Workers Unite, Melinda Chateauvert, Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 7:30 p.m...

Mapping our history of violence

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Poet Jessica Lawson started out writing what she thought would be a book of poems themed around maps. “Shortly into the writing process, Donald Trump...

Range life

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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...