As the title implies, Nancy Stohlman’s The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories is a weird-ass book. Aside from including copious fun facts about foxes and the story of a man whose wife is turning into a piano, it’s also presented in a format that, while still unusual, is gaining literary…
One night just before college graduation, Amy Butcher’s close friend Kevin met her for a drink and walked her home. It was just a one-block walk on a warm night in sleepy Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but he insisted, and she let him see her to her door. Then he went home…
Counterpath Press was ousted from its longtime home near the Mercury Cafe over the winter, and since then the MasterMind winner has been seeking out new ways to reach the public while also searching for a new home. One temporary solution: Counterpath landed a booth at City Park Jazz, and…
In the current Westword cover story, artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy (who writes about her Mayday Experiment here every Tuesday) talks about the changing area where she lives, the Whittier neighborhood, and describes how a class of students from Manual High School have been involved with the Gentrification Project, studying the…
Reading Gregory Daurer’s novel A Western Capitol Hill is a bit like taking a long ride on the Number 15 bus — eclectic, disorienting, occasionally appalling, but never dull. Part picaresque, part political spoof, the ebook focuses on unsavory goings-on in the Denver of a decade ago, from the gold…
Author, attorney, former U.S. senator and two-time presidential candidate Gary Hart will be at the Tattered Cover on July 6 to discuss his latest book, The Republic of Conscience. Hart, who represented Colorado in the Senate from 1975 to 1987 and ran for President in 1984 and 1988, is the…
This week a multi-talented author and artist relives American history first-hand in her memoir of life as a girl in a Japanese-American internment camp, while another goes Little House on the Prairie in a modern urban setting during a year of processing her own foods the old-fashioned way. And still…
Caitlin Doughty wrote the book on death: Last year’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, whose title references the popular Platters hit and the emotions associated therewith, but also ties to how actual smoke gets in your eyes when you’re cremating a corpse and have to go in there and stir the bones…
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…
Colorado’s got authors — good ones from the looks of the list below — but how many of them have you read? The 2015 Colorado Book Award winners, announced yesterday in the high country to jumpstart the annual Aspen Summer Words literary festival, are a great place to start discovering…
Nick Montfort, computational poet, creative programmer and MIT professor, has spent much of his career exploring the connections between computing and literature and talking about those connections everywhere from Brazil to St. Petersburg to the Google campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tonight he’s in Denver to read from and discuss #!…
Counterpath Press may be homeless right now, but it hasn’t lost its way — as evidenced by the program the 2013 MasterMind winner has planned for tomorrow at the Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax space, where four very different authors — Nick Montfort, Michael Friedman, Sanaz Fatemi and Graham Foust — will…
Literary events in the metro area this week will take you from the silly to the sublime: Play a round of “Where’s Waldo” with Momo the dog or fall under the spell of a novel rooted in the Canadian prairie. And if putting words together is your passion, Lighthouse Writers…
Ronda Rousey, the reigning UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, was a Judo bronze medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games; she’s also an actor and author with the charisma and wit to match her athletic ability. On Friday, May 29 she will be at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove to sign copies of…
Book signings this week include an introduction to a harrowing story of illegal immigrants trapped during a order crossing, as well as a couple of homegrown novels — one a detective book and the other a personal, and cynical, look at Evangelicals in America. John Vaillant, The Jaguar’s Children BookBar…
The moon splits apart for an unknown reason, unleashing a meteor shower that pummels Earth and forces a small group of humans to flee into space. Millennia later, their progeny return to rebuild the planet. That’s the premise behind Neal Stephenson’s new book, Seveneves, a “space-arc” epic spanning 5,000 years…
When Tuyet Nguyen left a full-time editing job a few years ago, she jumped in the back of a van as a roadie for Deer Tick, a Rhode Island rock group. While her job was to sell merchandise at each stop on the tour, Nguyen also found herself documenting the…
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…
