Books

All of us are haunted — by vestiges of the past, and, as Hannah Nordhaus poignantly observes in American Ghost, by the ghosts of who we thought we were or thought we would become. Her story is a different kind of personal haunting, though, as she writes of the ghost ...

Boulder Weekly is launching its first annual fiction contest this spring...

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...

"Like campers around a campfire sharing ghost stories, except all the stories are supposedly true, and the thing we’re gathered around is not a...

Novelist Paul G. Tremblay was on a flight home to New England when the idea for his 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End...

Ever get the feeling you just can’t concentrate like you used to? Feel like your brain is stuck on overload and you can’t put together a coherent thought? Never fear, the Internet is here for you to self-diagnose and treat whatever ails you. Yet, according to author ...

Boulder novelist Robert Dresner is openly self-derisive when he talks about his work...

Remember the first time you heard about Twitter...

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...

If we’re to trust Thurston Moore, “Rock stars can’t be poets, which sucks.” The line is from a poem by Moore titled “By The Lightswitch.”...

Standing in a bus station in Mumbai, Molly Brown lit a fresh cigarette off the smoldering stub of another — it’s not that the American nurse didn’t know better, it’s just that she didn’t give a damn anymore. Extreme pain will do that...

Usually fairy tales start with a beautiful princess waiting for Prince Charming to whisk them away. But in the new book CURSES! A F***ed Up Fairy Tale, Julie Kazimer takes a different approach — Cinderella gets hit by a bus on page two.Left with the mission of ...