Stephen White

Playwright Sharr White returns to Boulder with The Other Place

Sharr White's plays have been workshopped and mounted around the country over the years, and he has received several awards -- but it was The Other Place, his piece about a brilliant woman scientist's battle with dementia, that brought him to Broadway last year. Laurie Metcalf played the scientist, ... More >>

Editor Ronald Rice on his new essay collection and why bookstores will live forever

From Ernest Hemingway frequenting the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris to Allen Ginsberg and the beat poet's relationship to City Lights in San Francisco, authors have long had intimate collaborations with the stores that sell their books. My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Pla ... More >>

Wrapped up in Books

Doctor Of Intrigue

Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis talks about forty years of selling books

​Steve Cogil opened the first Tattered Cover on the corner of East 2nd Avenue and Detroit Street in Cherry Creek in 1971. It was small -- less than a thousand square feet. Three years later, Joyce Meskis took the reins of the space. In the decades since that, the Cherry Creek space moved again ... 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 >>

Tomye Kelley is suburban superhero Arvada Engenderall: Kenny Be's Hip Tip

Full-sized comic below.​ Arvada Engenderall Real Name: Tomye Kelley; Occupation: Gender conflict counseler; Suburb of operation: Arvada; Hair: White; Eyes: Clear Suburban superhero skill: Arvada Engenderall possesses the conventional understanding of "assigned sex" genders, as well as a maste ... More >>

Today's featured event: Stephen White thrills at the Tattered Cover

​The first twist in best-selling Boulder mystery-writer Stephen White's latest page-turner? Police detective Sam Purdy, a fictional friend of White's top-dog psychologist/protagonist Alan Gregory, assumes the lead in The Siege (Dutton, $25.95), wending his way through the hallowed grounds of Y ... More >>

Cat's Turn!

An Open Book

Will everyone in Boulder please get on the same page?

Case Closed

Mystery grows at local writers' gathering.

Night & Day

January 14 - 20, 1999

Off Limits

THRILLS