Books
Science fiction for the masses
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...
Pagediving
It was a great year for new books on music. I was able to get through a giant stack of them in the last...
Changing hearts and minds 3 mph at a time
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...
Andrew Sean Greer offers more on ‘Less is Lost’
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...
Sex Workers Unite, Melinda Chateauvert
Friday, February 7: Sex Workers Unite, Melinda Chateauvert, Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 7:30 p.m...
Record year
By the end of every year, I end up with a stack of new books about music so tall I end up needing more...
Punk rock and poetry
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 ...
Fast times
Twelve years ago, Steve Hendricks was looking for a way to shed some unwanted pounds. The former politico turned journalist was also seeking something...
‘Be wary of windows’
"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...
‘We’re all freaks, together’
G. Willow Wilson has spent her life telling stories. She’s told her own in her graphic novel Cairo and memoir Butterfly Mosque. She’s chronicled...
Aussie author Anna Campbell defies the boundaries of historical romance
It’s every writer’s dream. You write the best book you can...