December 11th, 2015 | by Elena Sorensen | published in Blog, Fiction | Leave A Comment »
Annie Proulx is perhaps most famous for her 1997 short story, Brokeback Mountain, made into the Oscar-winning 2005 film of the same name. What many people don’t remember is that it is embedded in a three-volume set of short stories, The Wyoming Stories about nineteenth and twentieth century cowboys and frontiersmen. The Stories are grim, […]
February 18th, 2014 | by caleb | published in Blog | Leave A Comment »
Goodbye to Mavis Gallant I don’t think I knew anything about Mavis Gallant until I heard Margaret Atwood read one of her stories on the New Yorker short story podcast. Gallant was a Canadian who lived most of her life in Paris, and is considered by many to be one of the best short story […]
September 25th, 2013 | by caleb | published in David J. Rothman, Non-fiction | 12 Comments »
Click here to purchase. Thinking about my own romance with the alpine world over the years has led me to discover one of the places where cause and effect come together. I may not be able to see this place of fusion clearly, or all at once, but it does exist and I can certainly sense […]
September 25th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Kathryn Winograd, Non-fiction | 5 Comments »
Click here to purchase. “When I first saw it, when at last the bear of my girlhood unlocked itself from the stone shadows and I could see the fine frosted hairs of its crooked dog legs, I could not leave it.” From forest fires to mountain lions, Ohio farm to Colorado cabin, violation to silence […]
September 25th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Jeff Kass, Non-fiction | Leave A Comment »
Click here to purchase. A Victim, the Killers, and a Nation’s Search for Answers Columbine: A True Crime Story is the first book of investigative journalism to tell the complete story of Littleton, Colorado’s 1999 mass shooting, its far-reaching consequences, and common characteristics amongst public shooters across the country. The result of fifteen years of […]
September 25th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Chris Ransick, Poetry | 1 Comment »
Click here to purchase. Never Summer speaks tenderly…layered so the perception of reality becomes almost super-real. This book is an everyday world where tragedy and bad news occasionally intrude. So does an ironic humor. Through all the ups and downs, there is a thread of confidence in the future, the belief that “we will build […]
September 24th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Eleanor Swanson, Poetry | Leave A Comment »
Click here to purchase. Praise for Memory’s Rooms: “Even the unlucky and the unacknowledged watch from high-up windows as Eleanor Swanson reminds us, I know what I saw,” says Andrea Watson. That’s part of it indeed. I know what I saw, and I wrote about it. And Joe Hutchison, author of Thread of the Real, says this: […]
September 24th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Juliana Aragón Fatula, Poetry | 1 Comment »
Click here to purchase. “Juliana Aragón Fatula writes histories so terrifying they feel as if they were written with a knife. She writes with craft and courage about what most folks are too ashamed to even think about, let alone talk about. Her fearlessness is inspirational. This is the kind of poetry I want to […]
September 24th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Michael J. Henry, Poetry | 2 Comments »
Click here to purchase. Michael Henry’s poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. His poems, shot through with feeling and perfectly crafted, are as happy sounding the dark classical themes of poetry as they are finding the saving glisten of the everyday. Author Michael J Henry is co-founder […]
September 24th, 2013 | by caleb | published in Chris Ransick, Poetry | 3 Comments »
Click here to purchase. Language for the Living and the Dead is a new collection of poetry by Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006 and winner of the Colorado Book Award. These hauntingly beautiful poems explore the tense, sometimes sloppy line between life and death, joy and despair, and how paying attention to the […]
