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  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000
  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best PR campaign

    John and Patsy Ramsey

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Off Limits

    His word is born.

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2001

    Best Collection Dedicated to a Best-Selling Author

    James A. Michener Special Collection

  • Goods & Services

    April 4, 2002

    Best Amenity in a Hospice

    Hospice of St. John

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003

    Best Children's Tea

    Harry Potter Meet & Greet
    Oak & Berries Tearoom

  • Goods & Services

    March 27, 2003

    Best Used Books All the Time

    Koelbel Public Library

  • Goods & Services

    March 25, 2004

    Best Place to Put It on Paper

    Lighthouse Writers Workshop

  • People & Places

    March 25, 2004

    Best Thing to Come Out of the JOA

    Denver Post Sunday comics

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2009

    Not-So-Secret Lives of Animals

    Denver Post Sunday comics

  • Calendar

    January 8, 2009

    Guilty Pleasures

    Denver Post Sunday comics

  • Calendar

    December 18, 2008

    Comics for a Cause

    Marc Hughes has the heart of a super hero.

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    September 4, 2008

    Mozart and Evolution

    Marc Hughes has the heart of a super hero.

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    November 29, 2007

    Shtetl on the Range

    Marc Hughes has the heart of a super hero.

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    August 2, 2007

    Ghoul Trouble

    Bound feet, ghosts and opera meet in a new novel.

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2009

    Fantasy Camp

    Lev Grossman conjures up a spellbinding book in The Magicians.

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Ask The Critic: What's on your bookshelf?

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

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    February 11, 2010

    We Love You, Conrad

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

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    March 11, 2010

    Writing the West

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

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    March 11, 2010

    He Loves Rock and Roll

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2010

    Sci-fi phenom Paolo Bacigalupi has seen the future -- and it's scary as hell

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 29, 2010

    Graphic Talk

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 5, 2010

    PICTURING THE HERMAPHRODITE

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    Dem Bones, Dem Bones

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2010

    Morning of Mourning

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

  • News

    November 4, 2010

    Sixteen years after his death, not-so-famous novelist John Williams is finding his audience

    ​ I tore through Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, and then sat back and watched the weak-willed and easily influenced suddenly declare their vegetarian sovereignty with a blood-streaked smile on my face and a bloody rare cheeseburger in my hand. Novella Carpenter's Farm City was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Acme Novelty Library #20, by Chris Ware, and other new releases this week, November 9, 2010

    ​Apparently this week is "awesome book week" because three of our picks come from trees, while another is based on a book. Okay, it's possible we're just attempting to show off the fact that we have the ability to read, but even so, a book from our last president, a comic collection from one o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2010

    Anarchy Revolution

    ​Apparently this week is "awesome book week" because three of our picks come from trees, while another is based on a book. Okay, it's possible we're just attempting to show off the fact that we have the ability to read, but even so, a book from our last president, a comic collection from one o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2010

    Time Bandit

    ​Apparently this week is "awesome book week" because three of our picks come from trees, while another is based on a book. Okay, it's possible we're just attempting to show off the fact that we have the ability to read, but even so, a book from our last president, a comic collection from one o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Steve Katz on mythology, memory and mining

    ​Recently, there have been a slew of ill-advised memoirs from people far too young and inexperienced to share their stories with the world. Steve Katz doesn't have that problem. The 75-year-old Denver author started writing his memoir five years ago, and it has since become a collection of ove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Roosevelt and DC Comics top our new release picks for November 23, 2010

    ​It seems like each holiday season is accented by a new, heavily researched American history novel. We'd venture a guess that it's because they sell well as Christmas presents, usually given to the mom or dad that simply "likes history." What else are you going to buy these folks, a time trave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Graphic.ly: Boulder-based start-up aims to become the iTunes of comic books

    ​So present-unwrapping is over and you're freshly stocked up on new socks, kitchen utensils and copies of the soundtrack to Glee, but is there a tiny, immature part of you that's still hungering for something that's just pure fun? If so, Graphic.ly is your answer. The Boulder-based start-up is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Local author Brenna Yovanoff goths it up for Young Adult readers

    ​Penguin Books, eager to eclipse Twilight with a new moon of its own, sharpened its stakes and rounded up five authors of hot new fantasy titles for Young Adult readers from its various imprints, unleashing them on the world for the Breathless Reads National Book Tour, which haunts the Tattere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Author Benjamin Hale on Braveheart, chimp sex and Kafka

    ​We generally don't think much about who is narrating our stories, but in the case of Benjamin Hale's new novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, we have to. Mostly because the narrator is an ape. Hale, who grew up in and around Boulder but who currently lives in New York, will be in town to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Author Benjamin Percy talks about genre, big box stores and more

    ​Author Benjamin Percy has his feet in pretty much every pair of shoes on the writing track: he's a novelist, a short story writer and an essayist, he's worked on graphic novels and short films and he teaches on top of all that. Since he's in town tonight at St. Cajetan's Center, we took the o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel tops our new-release picks for April 12, 2011

    ​If most authors leave an unfinished novel lying around, it doesn't really mean anything. It's usually unfinished because at best it's crap and at worst, unreadable. There have been exceptions: Kafka left behind The Castle, Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished, and Mark Twain's Mysteri ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    Behind the controversial Anthology of Rap, co-edited by CU hip-hop professor Adam Bradley

    ​If most authors leave an unfinished novel lying around, it doesn't really mean anything. It's usually unfinished because at best it's crap and at worst, unreadable. There have been exceptions: Kafka left behind The Castle, Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished, and Mark Twain's Mysteri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    OMG, Guys: Lauren Conrad has a book club

    ​It is true. Thanks to Lauren Conrad's tweet about her new fave dessert recipe "Blueberry Boy Bait," we were intrigued enough to take a jaunt over to Laurenconrad.com, where we discovered that she's starting a book club. And what's even better about this whole books n' LC thing? She's taking o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    John Sayles on his new novel, wars, history and research

    ​John Sayles is best known as a cult-director and script doctor, but apparently all that time spent writing and directing his own movies isn't enough for him, as he's also an accomplished novelist. Sayles will be hanging out at the Tattered Cover on Colfax this weekend to answer all your quest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2011

    Janelle Monae on Big Boi and what it takes to become an agent of change in the community

    Janelle Monáe (due Sunday, May 29 at 1STBANK Center with Bruno Mars and Mayer Hawthorne), like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, grew up in Kansas, and like that character, Monáe left home to go on something of a fantastic journey. But instead of Oz, Monáe landed in Atlanta, Georgia, where she met u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Comment of the day: "The three books are well written"

    ​In case the Oprah Book Club and Barnes & Noble's reading recommendations weren't enough to get you to read generic best-sellers, the One Book, One Denver program is here to help: Once again, Arts and Venues Denver's nominations for the contest that determines what all Denver shall read ignore ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Four coming-of-age comic books that would make great films

    ​Films based on comic books can really suck. But every once in a while, the stars align and the movies manage to translate a graphic novel into a film that actually works on its own. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is one of those successes, an adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel seri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2011

    A Leap of Faith

    ​Films based on comic books can really suck. But every once in a while, the stars align and the movies manage to translate a graphic novel into a film that actually works on its own. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is one of those successes, an adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel seri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Tayari Jones talks about Silver Sparrow

    ​In Silver Sparrow, the latest book by novelist Tayari Jones, the story follows two girls growing up in Atlanta -- but there's a twist: Dana, who narrates the first half of the book, is the secret half-sister of Chaurisse, who narrates the second half of the book. The two girls share a father, ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2011

    One Book, One Denver serves up the literary equivalent of a Happy Meal

    ​In Silver Sparrow, the latest book by novelist Tayari Jones, the story follows two girls growing up in Atlanta -- but there's a twist: Dana, who narrates the first half of the book, is the secret half-sister of Chaurisse, who narrates the second half of the book. The two girls share a father, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Adam Bradley, co-writer of Common's memoir, says book addresses White House controversy

    ​Common's memoir, One Day It'll All Make Sense, begins rather dramatically. The prologue reads: "When I was eighteen months old, my mother and I were kidnapped at gunpoint. My father held the gun. At least that's one side of the story." Common, with help from co-author Adam Bradley, a Univers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Princess Diana survives the crash and starts a new chapter in The Lost Queen of England

    ​Boulder author H. Elizabeth Owen just published a book about Princess Diana surviving her paparazzi-induced car wreck and escaping to Egypt, where she became intertwined with another long-lost queen. So let's get this out of the way right now: Does Owen actually believe Princess Diana is aliv ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2011

    Mountain Highs

    ​Boulder author H. Elizabeth Owen just published a book about Princess Diana surviving her paparazzi-induced car wreck and escaping to Egypt, where she became intertwined with another long-lost queen. So let's get this out of the way right now: Does Owen actually believe Princess Diana is aliv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Barry Fey signing his new book at Rockbar and Twist & Shout

    ​During his three decades as a promoter, Barry Fey brought in legendary acts like the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and U2. In his new book, Backstage Past, released yesterday on Lone Wolfe Press, Fey chronicles behind-the-scenes stories, some of which have nev ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011

    The End Of Oz

    ​During his three decades as a promoter, Barry Fey brought in legendary acts like the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and U2. In his new book, Backstage Past, released yesterday on Lone Wolfe Press, Fey chronicles behind-the-scenes stories, some of which have nev ... More >>

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