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October 18, 2019
Q & A #78 – Beau L’Amour, “Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures Volume 2”
What’s it like to be a writer and have an imagination that won’t turn off? Look no further than Louis L’Amour. Ninety-one novels. Nearly four hundred short stories, articles, screenplays, and poems—in addition to hundreds of unfinished works that Louis … Continue reading →
October 5, 2019
David Abrams, “Fobbit”
As relevant as right this minute, Fobbit rocks from start to finish. Written with an easy energy and a dry, wicked humor, Fobbit is an Iraqicized Catch-22. It’s that good. Maybe better. Fobbit is light on its feet, all too … Continue reading →
October 1, 2019
Linda Keir, “Drowning with Others”
Drowning With Others, the second novel by the writing team of Keir Graff and Linda Joffe Hull, begins with the exhumation of former Glenlake Academy poetry teacher Dallas Walker from his grave, in this case a mud-covered metallic blue muscle … Continue reading →
September 26, 2019
Michael Shaara, “For Love of the Game”
The great Mike Barnicle wrote, “That’s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never … Continue reading →
September 17, 2019
Mark Pleiss, “April Warnings”
Slice-of-life and slice-of-quirky, April Warnings is a novel in the form of interconnected stories set in fictional Baxter County, Nebraska—which may or may not be “a point on a grid that helps navigate travel through space.” Baxter County has cops, … Continue reading →
September 3, 2019
Q & A # 77 – Stephanie Kane, “A Perfect Eye”
If there’s an award for Comeback Writer of the Year in Colorado, it would certainly go to Stephanie Kane, who returns this week with a new mystery after a lengthy hiatus. A Perfect Eye launched on Sept. 1, and it introduces … Continue reading →
August 31, 2019
Louis L’Amour and Beau L’Amour, “No Traveller Returns”
“What was it made a man go to sea? What made a man leave everything behind and drift away across the world, bound for nowhere to anywhere?” At times full of human longing and literary romanticism, at other times bruising … Continue reading →
August 28, 2019
Q & A #76 – Chuck Greaves, “Church of the Graveyard Saints”
Church of the Graveyard Saints, the sixth novel from Cortez writer Chuck Greaves, is literary fiction with a thread of modern day romance and a mystery-thriller finish. It’s also an up-close look at a unique corner of Colorado–one that Chuck … Continue reading →
August 17, 2019
Lisa Halliday, “Asymmetry”
Read Asymmetry for the humor and lightness in “Folly,” the first half, and read this for the frustrating governmental craziness in “Madness,” the second half. Or read this for the curious remembrances of Ezra Blazer, the famous writer in “Folly,” … Continue reading →
July 30, 2019
A.J. Finn, “The Woman in the Window”
Three things to enjoy about last year’s megahit, The Woman in the Window. One. A ridiculously simple setup. To wit: an agoraphobic woman in New York City who witnesses a murder and must persevere through her own self-doubts, which are … Continue reading →
