Books
The 31-year itch
Boulder novelist Robert Dresner is openly self-derisive when he talks about his work...
David Foster Wallace: An American literary great revealed
“It sounded like the voice that I thought in,” says David Lipsky about the captivating literary style of novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. “Which of course is what you’re trying to do as a writer. And he’d done it! It was amazing! I was so thrilled. I faxed...
Made-in-America murderers
The murderers whose story Colorado Springs journalist David Philipps tells in his new book, Lethal Warriors, are hardly a sympathetic bunch. As Philipps writes it, they murdered their victims — servicemen, innocent strangers, ex-lovers — at the slightest provocation...
Her dark materials
Hillary Leftwich wanted her son to know what his first years on Earth were like — and she wanted him to know the whole,...
How women write the west
There’s no one American West for everyone, but stereotypes abound depending on where you look. Here in Colorado, we get a lot of cracks...
Through science, nature’s wonders
It is not the preferred style of Professor Richard Dawkins, the famed evolutionary biologist and militant atheist crusader, to preach to the choir...
