Books

As Fall officially begins here in Denver, the literary offerings begin to pick up. The weather is cooler, daylight wanes, and falling leaves somehow make people want to turn the pages of a book. The various bookstores in and around town are here to oblige, offering up everything from graphic novels to psychological treatise to political philosophy to new novels and Neil Patrick Harris. Okay, so Neil Patrick Harris isn’t in an of himself literary, but like Jell-o, there’s always room for some Neil Patrick Harris.

John Shors is a Boulder novelist, but he—and his fiction—sure get around.

It’s a big week for the Colorado literary scene, anchored with the ZEE JLF Jaipur Literary Festival in Boulder.

Franklin Cruz refuses to choose between art and science.

The author is dermined to remain uncorralled by state lines.

Denver’s literary scene is full of inspiration.

What is it about September that makes us all start to turn inward, both literally and figuratively?

Poet Megan Falley’s forthcoming book of poetry, “Drive Here and Devastate Me,” is full of love poems, something she doesn’t usually find herself writing about.

Anne Waldman is a poetic powerhouse.

Back-to-school time for the kids is a good time for you to learn something new, too.

The comic is Denver’s own Renaissance Man.

Adam Cayton-Holland will be signing at the Tattered Cover.

She’ll launch her novel, Chance for Rain, on August 21 at Fiction Beer Company.

The lineup this week includes many ways to just plain better yourself through books.

Get your bookmarks ready.

Josiah Hesse talks about the launch of Carnality: Sebastian Phoenix and the Dark Star, his literary venture Suspect Press, cruiser bikes, artistic Jedi, and how his devotion to the Mile High City fits into it all.

The literary scene this week is sort of like a Westword homecoming.

Chelsea Harris is a local author with a national mission.

Gina Wohlsdorf talks criticism, the value of place, the nature of writing, and how it all comes together in powerful—and yes, thrilling—story.

There’s something on the books for everyone this last full week of July.

Book some time for these readings and signings.

Denver’s literary scene marches into mid-July with lines from Lyons, some noir-esque vehicular violence, a Boulder writer coming home again, a book about bookshops hosted by a bookstore, and the 2018 Youth One Book One Denver author entertaining and inspiring, middle-grade style.