Since Fear of Flying was released in 1973, Erica Jong has been a force to be reckoned with in both the literary and feminist worlds; she’s published twenty books, including eight novels, six volumes of poetry, six non-fiction works, plus articles in an array of prestigious publications. In her latest…
We’ve made no secret about our beef with One Book, One Denver — specifically, that the program doesn’t try very hard to find unknown novels by great authors, or even books by Colorado authors — but so far this year we’ve neglected to put our money where our mouth is…
When we search for things on the Internet, a number of variables determine what we end up finding. Whether it’s the configuration of our computers, the location, or our past search history, the information we get is filtered and changed to match our record. When these same algorithms start determining…
Today is the deadline to vote for the next pick in the One Book, One Denver program. Your options: Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Jef Otte wasn’t thrilled by the choices, following in…
Devil’s Plaything is equal parts technological thriller and science fiction, but it’s also a very human drama about a man’s relationship with his grandmother and her past. Author Matt Richtel will be on hand at the Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue at 7:30 p.m. tonight to read from the book and…
The Denver Public Library’s annual Used Book Sale continues today under the white tents on the north side of the main branch, and it’s chock full of titles you wouldn’t want to pay $24.99 for, but on which you might risk a buck (or two). Which isn’t to say there’s…
Tim Tebow knows how to draw a crowd. For his book signing yesterday at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, Tebow signed books before the multitude of about 600 devout fans, and we’re talking very, very devout. It was like Jesus Christ had come down from heaven to sign copies of…
Forrest Yoga creator Ana Forrest tells quite a story. She started practicing yoga as a young teenager, became an instructor and has been involved in the yoga world for almost forty years; today, she’ll sign a book containing her life story and innovative healing techniques, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to…
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…
