Even before Denver Comic Con hits town, this week you you can pick up a comic collection that tells early American history’s real stories, or grab a solid work of fiction from an author who’s made a living reading the novels of the greats. Or you can just sit back…
Dig into another installment of a tried-and-true mystery series with a Western theme, take off into a homegrown fantasy/sci-fi realm or get lost in the first novel from a multi-talented author. There’s a lot to explore on the local literary scene this week. Craig Johnson, Dry Bones Tattered Cover Colfax…
When poet Jake Adam York died suddenly of a stroke in December 2012 at the age of forty, he left behind an unpublished book of poetry, Abide, and a literary journal, Copper Nickel, which he’d founded a decade earlier at the University of Colorado Denver. This year Abide was nominated for…
Chris Callaway was an obsessive lover of music at a young age. While still in high school and through college, he wrote for Christian heavy- metal magazines before graduating to highe- profile publications like Boulder Weekly and Westword. His first book, Reel to Real by Reel, is a selection of…
Silas Soule was killed on the streets of Denver on April 23, 1865. No one was ever charged with his murder, but a plaque at 15th and Lawrence streets honors the captain, then serving as the young city’s provost marshal, who’d refused to let his men participate in the Sand…
Literary events aren’t always book-signings and they don’t always happen in book stores. This week you can get your fill of Chicano poetry and theater at two concurrent festivals in Denver or be inspired by an Iranian immigrant’s transformational words. Wordfest Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center April 20…
This week opens the book with a focus on Colorado authors (including Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, the subject of this week’s Westword cover story) and a new ripple in the metro-area book-store biz. Here’s how to support your local authors and your local bookstores. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Fig Boulder Book Store…
Book-lovers can turn the pages this week with a very different pair of Colorado genre authors or immerse themselves in the world of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe at a class co-sponsored by Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Art Students League of Denver. Whether you fancy sci-fi, noir fiction or…
This week’s book events will take you to climes both exotic and dangerously extreme, but also deep into the depths of the human heart at a talk with one of the planet’s most esteemed modern novelists. The details follow. Bill Giebler The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from…
“A lot of young people express interest in wanting to make a difference in the world, but most of them don’t have a plan,” says Jeffrey Pryor, a professor at Regis University and the University of Colorado and CEO of Pathfinder Solutions, an organization dedicated to providing research and training…
Book it! This week’s literary events include looks at both the best and worst of the natural world, as well as another book filled with beautiful photographs showing how micro-loans can change the lives of the poorest of the poor. The Wilderness Act at 50: A Celebration of Colorado Wilderness…
Paint the town read! This week’s literary picks include two offbeat books about history and a supreme foodie memoir introduced over a five-course wine dinner. Keep reading for the delicious details. Joel Christian Gill, Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Tattered Cover LoDo 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 18…
Things are getting spooky in Erie, Colorado. That’s where near-native Josh Viola, seventeen-time award-winning author of The Bane of Yoto, now lives. Viola found himself frustrated by the commercialization of publishing — so frustrated, in fact, that he set out to change the way authors are treated, launching Hex Publishers,…
Today three million copies of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly, hit the stands. And although this edition, the first to come out since terrorists killed twelve members of the magazine’s staff, was snapped up fast in France this morning, the Tattered Cover hopes to make the issue available here…
It’s no surprise that author Carrie Vaughn, who’ll be appearing at Broadway Book Mall Sunday, holds a deep love for the nooks, crannies, and quiet hominess of local bookstores. She used to work in one. In the late ’90s, the Longmont-based scribe had yet to launch her New York Timesbestselling…
This week, you can explore short-short stories, enjoy a tasty slice of long-gone Denver culinary history and listen to dramatic readings of poetry at celebrations of the printed word. Keep reading for the details. See also: Melanie Crowder: Audacity…
It’s the post-holiday dead of winter, when you never know when you’re going to wake up to a half-foot of snow. So this is a good time to work your way through the pile of books by your bed. But make a resolution to get outside, too, because this week’s…
“People sometimes write books and don’t know what to do with them,” says Arturo Garcia, editor at Ícaro Editores, a small press. “It’s a dream to see their work published. A lot of folks who get published, they want to fly with it. I tell them, be careful. Wings may…
Recent events have sparked the long-smouldering conversation about racism in America. While the Civil Rights movement peaked in this nation fifty years ago, some countries took a longer time to reach “equality.” Associated Press correspondent Donna Bryson was stationed in South Africa from 1993-1996 and then again in 2008-2012; she…
Same-sex marriage was the hot topic of the summer, with Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall following in the four-decade-old footsteps of her predecessor Clela Rorex, who’d issued the first same-sex marriage licenses in the country back in the mid-’70s. But with the U.S. Supreme Court’s deliberate inaction this…
Cary Elwes (whose booksigning originally scheduled for tonight at the Tattered Cover has been postponed until further notice), explains in the introduction to his bestselling book, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride, that he was inspired to pen the tome at the 25-year-anniversary celebration…
From such veterans as Connie Willis and Ed Bryant to newcomers Molly Tanzer and Rob Ziegler to Carrie Vaughn and Warren Hammond, the focus of Westword’s current cover story, Colorado’s science-fiction/fantasy writers are as wide-ranging as the genres themselves. The books that this state’s authors have produced over the decades…
