Books

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 ...

The beauty in movement

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The world isn’t a private place anymore,” says photographer Jennifer Buhl...

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...

A tweet look at the literary classics

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Remember the first time you heard about Twitter...

Aussie author Anna Campbell defies the boundaries of historical romance

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It’s every writer’s dream. You write the best book you can...

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...

Speaking for America

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"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...

Writing the unwritten

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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 ...

101-word fiction contest

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

The 31-year itch

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

New fairy tale novel aims to be ‘Shrek’ for adults

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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 ...

The (nearly) lost art of sportswriting a proud tradition soldiers on

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On vacation in Oakland the other night, I had the unique (and arguably profound) experience of 10,000 Athletics fans vocally battling 10,000 transplanted New York Yankees fans throughout a close game, and my thoughts somehow turned to academia, and writing. Over my ...