Books
Extracting stories from the industries of the American West
In the ruins of the sugar mill on Madison Avenue in Loveland, one of the buildings has a message painted on the roof: “IT...
Unearthing what’s beneath
When she’s not writing fiction, Kristie Betts Letter teaches her 10th grade students how to fail.
Not how to do it intentionally, of course, but...
Looking past the uniform
A uniform solidifies a sense of sameness, but as Helen Thorpe set out to write her latest book, Soldier Girls, she realized that behind the uniform, experiences are anything but alike...
This is going to hurt
Local poet Jade Lascelles doesn’t shrink from what she describes as “the collapsed moment, the moment of a brutality.” She approaches it, tries to...
Raising the dead
The librarian let Julie Carr look at the box, but she couldn’t look in it.
Carr, a professor in CU’s English department, knew her great-grandfather’s...
