Literary Calendar: Three Book Events in Denver November 2-8

This week you can shake the hand of a Clinton, sharpen you own writing chops with colleagues at the library, or bring your pooch to the Tattered Cover for a dog-friendly, outdoor book signing. There’s something here for everyone — read all about it. Chelsea Clinton, It’s Your World: Get…

Six Hex Horror Writers on Their Favorite Colorado Frights

Ever wonder what sorts of things unnerve the folks who make a living scaring their readers? We polled a few of our favorite local horror authors for the most spine-tingling October attractions, events, sites and sounds — and, some of their answers were as unexpected as the plots twists you’ll…

Literary Calendar: Three Book Events in Denver for October 12-18

If books inspire us to flex our intellectual muscles, looking back on who we are and how we got that way, this is the week to dive into self-exploration. The calendar includes appearances by authors of every stripe, from cartoonists and poets to contemporary novelists. Here are just three of…

Meghan Dougherty Rolls Out Next Installment in Tween Roller-Derby Series

According to protagonist Dorothy’s hearse-driving, derby-skating granny, “Normal is overrated!” Author Megan Dougherty delivers that powerful message – along with lessons in self-confidence and individuality – to young women via her tween series Dorothy’s Derby Chronicles. And to mark the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls rolling strong for ten years, teammate Dougherty…

Literary Calendar: Five Events in Denver September 21-27

Poetry is big in Denver literary circles this week, as 100 Thousand Poets for Change takes over the city with a series of weekend events and the local slam community sends off its 2015 contender for the Individual World Poetry Slam. And then there’s also a side-trip to literary Iceland…

Theater Writer John Lahr Returns to Colorado With New Book

John Lahr wants us to see what’s behind the curtain. The eminent theater critic, who retired recently after covering the beat for the the New Yorker magazine for 21 years, produces the most probing, original and well-written work on performance, performers and the theater today. His most recent collection of profiles…

Literary Calendar: Three Book Events in Denver, September 1-6

Ready to replenish that book pile on your nightstand? Revisit a favorite mystery series, get inside the head of an autistic man or brush up on your Star Wars lore in anticipation of the December release of Star Wars: Episode VII at book signings this week in Denver. Margaret Coel,…

Illya Kowalchuk Gets Graphic With Pop Culture Classroom

In 2012, the year of the first Denver Comic Con, Pop Culture Classroom released its Storytelling Through Comics curriculum to Denver Public Schools. And for the past three years, proceeds from Denver Comic Con have funded both staffing and supplies for the Classroom, a local nonprofit founded in 2010 (as…

Fulcrum Publishing Brings Comic Relief to Classrooms

As a kid, Bob Baron would read all the cartoons he could find in the newspapers on the coffee table in the family room. His dad was a journalist, and there were always a few lying around. With the speed of the Flash, he’d consume Walt Kelly’s satirical strip “Pogo,”…

Literary Calendar: Three Book Events in Denver August 24-29

This is a week for beginnings and endings: The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers will host a panel on how to write and publish a book, while BMoCA’s Biennial-affiliated Line Break poetry series will say so long after seven poetic weeks. And in between, author Paul Levitt will talk about his…

Literary Calendar: Three Poetry Events in Denver August 17-23

“Poetry can be dangerous,” said Jalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, “especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”  But poetry can also be provocative, entertaining and amazing, as three literary events this week will show.  Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos and Roger Green Syntax…

Julie Carr Curated Tonight’s Line Break Performance of Feminist Poetry

Of all starving artists, poets may be the most starving. A challenging art form that demands a type of time and engagement most people just aren’t willing to give, poetry tends to get sidelined even in communities dedicated to nurturing challenging art that demands time and engagement, relegated instead to…

Megan Feldman Bettencourt on Forgiveness and Triumph of the Heart

Forgiveness gets a bad rap: It’s seen as akin to giving in, backing down, capitulation. In reality, the opposite is true, says Megan Feldman Bettencourt in her book Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World: Forgiveness is hard. That, the Denver-based author says, is the real reason we…

Literary Calendar: Three Book Events in Denver August 10-14

Some of the best books tell true stories of hardship overcome: Bob Yehling’s Just Add Water follows the incredible career of Clay Marzo, a world-class surfer who just happens to have Asperger’s syndrome; while Megan Feldman Bettencourt’s Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World, shows how a man’s forgiveness…

Bob Yehling on Surfing, Clay Marzo and Just Add Water

Long periods of silence — sometimes up to two hours — pervade Denver-based author Bob Yehling’s interview tapes with world-champion surfer Clay Marzo. Marzo doesn’t do a lot of talking. Marzo has Asperger’s, a fact that made Just Add Water, Yehling’s biography of the surfer, necessary and vital. But it…

University of Denver Novelists Launch Their Books at Leon Gallery Saturday

The University of Denver’s graduate creative writing program is getting ready to pump out a fire-hose of new novels over the next couple of months — well, at least two. DU Director of Creative Writing (and one of our 100 Colorado Creatives) Selah Saterstrom’s much-anticipated, Katrina-inspired SLAB — which Square Product…

Literary Calendar: Three Book Events in Metro Denver August 3-7

Someone said poetry is the art of juxtaposition, and this work week’s book-ended (get it?) readings offer a convenient study: A nineteenth-century lawman sets out to take back his tarnished reputation from the bandit who framed him and ends up falling in love; meanwhile, in postmodern Brooklyn, a young drone…