Calling all office joes and fraternity bros — don’t have time to read Tim Tebow’s new book, Through My Eyes, but still want to live your life as righteously as possible? Do what Tebow does: follow the Mile-High Messiah’s Ten Commandments for Living a Holy Life, as helpfully assembled by…
Despite the fact that there is no known shortage of awesome writers, authors and poets in this town, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’ One Book, One Denver program has a long history of coming up with arbitrary treacle that has nothing to do with Denver for the three selections…
A man with no sense of smell named Shakespeare Williams returns to his familial home on the eastern plains of Colorado to find his senile father living in filth and disarray and his finances even worse, and so he hatches a plan to rob a bank. Intrigued? That’s the plot…
Denver is one slammin’ town, and that’s to our advantage: It means we’re not under the radar of the national slam poetry community. Rather, Denver is a destination: Touring poets make it a point to stop over here, say “hey” to their Denver brothers and sisters and perform for them…
John Sayles is best known as a cult-director and script doctor, but apparently all that time spent writing and directing his own movies isn’t enough for him, as he’s also an accomplished novelist. Sayles will be hanging out at the Tattered Cover on Colfax this weekend to answer all your…
In case you haven’t seen the exhibit, or have been living under a rock for the past five years or so, PostSecret is a project from Frank Warren that began when he handed out blank postcards to strangers in the Washington, D.C. area, inviting people to decorate the postcards with…
In their book, One Nation Under Sex, Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach are looking for high profile sex scandals that the history books might have missed. That might sound like a book filled with hearsay and smut, but the purpose isn’t so much to bring down our nation’s leaders, but…
Bestselling author Charlaine Harris has seen her creation (the Southern Vampire novel series) turned into a hit television show (True Blood), and she’s kept the momentum going throughout the chain of books that document the story of protagonist Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress who finds herself deeply involved in the…
When most people envision the future, they probably think about the awesome products we’ll have to make our lives easier, but author Greg Lindsay is more concerned about how those products get to us. It’s no secret most manufacturing has moved overseas, and with that move, a global economy has…
Poetry is one of the few written media that actually sounds better when it comes from the voice of the author. Unlike say, fiction, which tends to come out like a unnecessary, often drunken mess, poetry is actually enhanced by being able to see or hear the poem — case…
Denver-based sportswriter and BBC Radio baseball broadcaster Josh Chetwynd has a new book in stores this week with a catchy title: The Secret History of Balls: The Stories Behind the Things We Love to Catch, Whack, Throw, Kick, Bounce and Bat. He’ll be reading from and signing copies of the…
Paolo Giordano was working on his doctorate in particle physics when he wrote The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a beautifully rendered tale of two misfit children whom Giordano compares to twin primes — a prime number that differs from another prime number by two (like eleven and thirteen). The further…
It can be hard to know what to make of art, especially when the art in question is that of Vance Kirkland, Colorado’s foremost abstract expressionist. Sometimes, you need a little help with the interpretation — and as far as that goes, what better to interpret art than poetry, another…
If poetry is, as writer J. Patrick Lewis described, “prose, bent out of shape,” then Sandra and Ben Doller have made a career out of bending. This poet duo will bring its crooked prose to the University of Colorado at Boulder for a reading this evening that’s sure to be…
There are slam poets, and then there are SLAM POETS: Though there’s more than a little love and support spread around in the performance poetry community, it’s still everybody for themselves when they hit the stage. That means there’s going to be some fierce nitty-gritty going down at Westword MasterMind-winning…
At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sarah Vowell will sign copies of her latest tome, Unfamiliar Fishes, at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street. We caught up with Vowell about her inspiration for the book, what she learned and how this book fits into her previous body of work…
Cristy Road is a queer punk-rocker radical feminist Cubana artist and writer; her career as a ‘zinester dates back to the 7th grade and a time when she struggled with personal gender and identity issues, masking over her true feelings with a combination of deep-felt loneliness and an obsession with…
Kevin Anderson has lost track of the number of books he’s written. He knows it’s over a hundred, and when it gets to that point it’s not a matter of not remembering. There are other factors — this one didn’t make it to print, that one was reissued, and it…
For much of his career, David Sirota has been a hard-hitting leftist political operative, running campaigns with what former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta once called his “instinct for the jugular” and later moving into the world of Journalism and commentary; these days, he’s a Denver-based syndicated…
Jasper Fforde (pronounced “ford”) has a quirky side. This comes as no shock to fans of this British author, but folks who aren’t familiar with him might be pleasantly surprised by his somewhat skewed take on life. For instance, the main character of his popular Thursday Next series, is… Miss…
In 2009, Tracy Ross, senior editor for Backpacker Magazine, won a National Magazine Award for her December 2007 essay The Source of All Things, a story quite unlike any of the tales of outdoor adventure she’d previously written. The essay centered on a hike she took as an adult with…
It’s not like the story of Grandpa Bredo, the dead guy who unwittingly inspired Colorado’s favorite oddball festival Frozen Dead Guy Days (in Nederland this weekend), is any secret: When he died, his family cryogenically preserved him in a shed out back to await the technology that might one day…
