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.
Last year, Bruce Springsteen stopped by the Tattered Cover; this year, it’s John Oates of Hall and Oates, who will be reading from his memoir, Change of Seasons. The book takes a look at the duo’s struggle to snag an Atlantic Records recording contract and Oates’s life in the tumultuous…
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.
Legendary bookseller Joyce Meskis talks about the next chapter for the Tattered Cover.
Books are, as holiday gifts go, some of the best things to give, and not just because they make you, the giver, look smart. (Though that’s clearly a plus.) They also carry meaning: you don’t just give someone any old book—you choose it for them specifically, because of their interests or because you and the recipient share some interest. Or, you know, location.With that in mind, here are ten great literary choices for Colorado gift-giving this year: from the poetic to the prosaic, from fiction to non, from the comic to works of sincere depth…they’re all books on the Mile-High scale of sublime.
Books make great gifts for the holidays. It helps, of course, to find books that address your particular recipient’s passions and obsessions — and while you’re at it, why not throw in a few titles by local authors?
Author Chris Meehan has been wandering around the wilderness since he was four. On Thursday, December 8, he’ll find himself at Baker Wine & Spirits, 440 Broadway, at a whiskey-tasting and book signing for his new guide, Climbing Colorado’s Fourteeners: From the Easiest Hikes to the Most Challenging Climbs. We…
Josh Viola — the award-winning author of The Bane of Yoto and founder of Hex Publishers — will roll out his latest science fiction anthology, Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, at a launch party and book signing at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 10, at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, 1628 16th…
The alley between Champa and Curtis streets is closed. A sign on a barrier warns that only people making deliveries or employees of local businesses are allowed, that trespassing is prohibited under penalty of law — part of the ongoing police effort to keep the homeless from setting up camp…
Calling all poets, spoken-word artists, emcees and writers: Applications are now being accepted for the Denver Youth Poet Laureate, with anyone between the ages of fourteen and twenty who lives in the seven-county metro area (and plans to say here for at least a year) eligible. The title includes a…
Just in time for Halloween, two novels dealing with eerie Colorado themes are haunting local bookstores. One is a fictionalized channeling of one of the state’s most celebrated and puzzling historical figures, while the other is a semi-comic mystery dealing with seances, Riverside Cemetery, cab driving and other scary topics. …
Used book stores come and go in this town. In recent years, more have been going than coming, thanks to keen competition from online outlets and the growing popularity of Nooks and Kindles. So it’s an occasion for celebration when two antiquarian bookshops — one an old friend, the other…
This is a success story. This is Field of Dreams for book lovers. It’s the tale of two bibliophiles and their devotion to the intersection of the printed word and the land, a devotion that led to amassing an eclectic, comprehensive collection that starts with nature and man’s relation to…
Go West, young readers, with Ron Hansen’s retelling of the Billy the Kid legend — or engage in a little Denver-style fun from Suspect Press and City Stacks. Where will you be turning pages this week? Ron Hansen, The Kid Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue 7 p.m. Thursday, October 20 Award-winning…
Grab a cocktail or a cup of coffee, and settle into a seat in Union Station’s 100-year-old Great Hall on Wednesday, October 5, for a presentation by the authors of Found, the 2016 anthology from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. “Some things are better off lost,” explains Denver-based writer and artist…
Meet a lauded graphic novelist or a Colorado-style sci-fi genius, hobnob with Nicholas Sparks, take part in a big-city writing project or chill with Latino poets. It’s all in a week’s work on the local word scene. Gene Luen Yang, Secret Coders Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue 6 p.m. Monday, October…
