Books

Dammed river

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The Colorado River has served as a centerpiece for so much of the mythology and literature written about the American West. From books like John...

Where the wild things are

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Boulder parents looking for the perfect place to take their kids outside don’t have to go farther than the National Center for Atmospheric Research...

The magic that wasn’t

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Marrying into a family of fervent Disney fans might typically mean you end up riding Space Mountain more than you ever thought you would....

Pagediving

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It was a great year for new books on music. I was able to get through a giant stack of  them in the last...

Hot reads

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As seasons go, winter is tailor-made for reading. All you need is a blanket, a book and maybe a hot toddy, and you’re set.  The...

Coyote masks

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You can tell a lot about a person from the way they say the word “coyote.”  The conventional wisdom is that people west of the...

Sea change

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The new nonfiction book Over the Seawall is about what writer Stephen Robert Miller terms “disastrous adaptation.” In a nutshell, that means the delusional...

Spilling the tea

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The story of how Boulder entrepreneur Brook Eddy built the Bhakti Chai company starts on a trip to Bangalore, India, in 2002. There she...

This is going to hurt

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Local poet Jade Lascelles doesn’t shrink from what she describes as “the collapsed moment, the moment of a brutality.” She approaches it, tries to...

Windswept

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Michelle Theall and her wife were in the process of taking in a foster child when they got a call that a boy and...

Freedom fighter

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In writing a historical novel about Dutch World War II resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, author Buzzy Jackson didn’t feel like she needed to embellish...

Book report 

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As usual, the state’s readers are blessed with an abundance of literary riches. This fall, the writing community in Colorado brings the following offerings:...