Edgar Sawtelle

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

Closing the book on the next One Book, One Denver

​Today is the deadline to vote for the next pick in the One Book, One Denver program. Your options: Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Jef Otte wasn't thrilled by the choices, following in a long tradition of Westw ... More >>

Top five ways to improve One Book, One Denver -- and great Colorado authors to consider

John Williams​For years this space has been the repository of staff rants about the weird selections made by the city's One Book, One Denver program -- most of which have little or nothing to do with Colorado and seem to be, at best, a nod toward oh-so-PC mediocrity. The worst offender may be ... More >>

John Hickenlooper proves truth is stranger than fiction at Colorado Book Awards

​Truth is definitely stranger than fiction, with the 19th Annual Colorado Book Awards announcement in Aspen last Friday just offering more proof. For starters, the main speaker was John Hickenlooper, the former geologist turned brewpub-owner turned Denver mayor who's now running for governor. ... More >>

Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary for One Book, One Denver

​For a city that embraces reading, Denver has never really embraced the One Book, One Denver program -- not even after last year's votingpalooza for the fifth edition, tied to a secret National Endowment for the Arts grant from the Big Read program, which resulted in the pick of To Kill a Moc ... More >>

The Lighthouse Lit Fest begins tonight

The Ferril house It seems odd that in a financial storm where massive commercial institutions of all kinds are crumbling left and right, a writer's workshop run out of an old poet's house on Downing street would be unaffected. And yet, Lighthouse Writer's Workshop keeps on growing. "In times of st ... More >>

Writer's Colony

The Ferril house It seems odd that in a financial storm where massive commercial institutions of all kinds are crumbling left and right, a writer's workshop run out of an old poet's house on Downing street would be unaffected. And yet, Lighthouse Writer's Workshop keeps on growing. "In times of st ... More >>