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…
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,…
