Books

This is a week to celebrate both local authors and independent bookstores, with Indies First on November 25, 2017, kicking off Small Business Saturday.

Helen Thorpe answers questions about her new book, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom.

From Hillary Clinton to Michael Hancock hosting Claudia Rankine, here are the best literary events in Denver November 13 through November 19.

As everyone in Denver tries to re-set their internal clocks (thanks, Daylight Savings Time!), the calendar includes plenty to lit events to illuminate these darker evenings and keep those bleary eyes open for just a few more pages. Here are six of the best.

For the past ten years, Curtis Craddock has been living in a fantasy world. During the day, he works at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, teaching incarcerated felons how to use computers. At night he dreams of a place called Caelum, celebrated in his book An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors.

Mayor Michael Hancock celebrated the reopening of the renovated Shoemaker Plaza at Confluence Park on October 14. And as promised, the plaque embossed with the poem “Two Rivers” by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Colorado’s first poet laureate, is back on display.

In this op-ed, Tershia d’Elgin, author of The Man Who Thought He Owned Water, discusses “the naked truth” about the Colorado Water Plan.

The writing haunts recommended by some of Colorado’s best wordsmiths.

Madeleine Dodge and Olivia Wischmeyer published their first book before they received their high school diplomas.

The Old West was a weird place — but not weird enough for Denver author and editor David Boop, who rounded up a posse of fantasy/sci-fi writers for the Western-horror anthology Straight Outta Tombstone.

On the eve of the publication of his second thriller featuring Clyde Barr,  A Promise to Kill, author Erik Storey offers a look at “The Still Wild West.”

Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book, The Hour of Land, was seeded in the red rock splendor and expansive salt flats of Utah, where her family’s roots stretch back five generations. The renowned environmental writer, activist, and teacher’s deep affection for the national parks and monuments of her home state prompted her self-described “love letter” in celebration of the National Park Service’s 2016 centennial. In The Hour of Land, Tempest Williams chronicles, through varied narrative forms, the past and present, personal experience of twelve national parks with reverence and a vivid clarity. Tempest Williams says the book’s ultimate scope surprised her: “What I thought I was writing was about our national parks and our public commons. What I think I ended up writing was a history of America and falling deeply in love with the country we call home.”

Former Tattered Cover employee Matthew Sullivan is living the dream with his debut novel, a dark mystery set in — how about that? — an eclectic downtown Denver bookstore.

As they prepared to mark what would have been Ginsberg’s 91st birthday on Saturday, June 3, Kerouac School writers decided to honor the legendary beat poet with a night of live poetry and music at Boulder’s Fox Theater.

Get ready to bust out those library cards. Last night, the winners of the Colorado Book Awards were announced. Among the selection are a biography of Theodore Roosevelt, a primer in counting via the weird world of octopuses (and their three hearts and nine brains), and a history of Colorado.

Local author Sean Eads writes genre novels and short stories. His latest, Trigger Point, is the tale of a massage therapist who tries to find a murderer. In advance of Eads’s reading of Trigger Point, on April 18, at the Tattered Cover, we asked him to share some insight into his new book and the inspiration behind it.

There may not be a cooler project in all of Colorado than the Rocky Mountain Land Library. Find out why on March 21 when library reps go live on Kickstarter.

David Nadelberg found a box full of junk from his childhood, including a love letter. He was mortified. Instead of tossing it, he sought out other hidden embarrassing treasures people had filed away from the angst-riddled youth, and turned it into the Mortified series.

Denver native Neal Cassady Inspired Jack Kerouac to write On the Road. But his legacy includes more than the Beat Generation: He also fathered a secret son, Robert Hyatt.

Denver-based journalist Scott Carney knows that his neighbors – as well as members of Denver City Council – think he’s crazy. They’re not entirely without reason; on freezing days, Carney goes on runs wearing nothing but shorts, shoes and gloves.

Art of Storytelling brings cross-cultural voices to the mic at Prodigy Coffeehouse in Denver.