Paint the town read! At events this week, you can delve into the American mass-murder epidemic, reconnect with the Brontë sisters in a study of their most intimate moments, or line up to meet dozens of historical fiction authors — including the author of the Outlander series — at a national convention making its first appearance in Denver. Here's the fine print....

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Stephen and Joyce Singular

Counterpoint

Stephen and Joyce Singular, The Spiral Notebook: The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth
Boulder Book Store
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 23
Crime writer Stephen Singular and his wife, Joyce, made The Spiral Notebook ($26, Counterpoint) a family affair with help from their son and interviewee, Eric, who offers a Generation Z point of view on crime today, focusing on James Holmes and the particulars of the Aurora theater shooting and ensuing court proceedings. From there, the Singulars take off into a sociological examination of why we seem to be producing mass killers in America in a modern milieu of meds and video games.

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W.W. Norton

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Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue
7 p.m. Tuesday, June 23
Anyone with a jones for the novels of the Brontë sisters will appreciate the research of author and scholar of Victorian literature Deborah Lutz, whose intimate biography, The Brontë Cabinet ($27.95, W.W. Norton), is centered around a grouping of objects — articles of clothing, letters, walking sticks — from their everyday lives.