By Hannah Evans As schools settle into somewhat of a routine once again, both at the end of this year’s back to school season and in a broader sense after the chaos and disruption of […]
By Hannah Evans Isaac Fitzgerald opens his new memoir, “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional” (2022, Bloombury) with an attention- grabbing line that he admits to using whenever asked about his childhood: “My parents were married when […]
By Hannah Evans The phrase “fire season” is increasingly one on the minds of those living in western states— every summer the time it describes seems to last longer and pose more of a threat […]
By Hannah Evans In The Denver North Star’s first issue, I reviewed Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection “Sabrina & Corina,” a beautiful selection of fiction featuring vibrant female characters and their ties and relationships to […]
By Hannah Evans When asked to name the inventor of the motion picture camera, one would be forgiven for initially thinking of Thomas Edison. The well known “Wizard of Menlo Park” is credited with many […]
Signor Speranza’s tiny Italian village of 212 people, Prometto, is in serious trouble, and only this vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor can save it. In Christine Simon’s lighthearted new novel, “The Patron Saint of Second […]
Sasha LaPointe, writer, poet, singer, and artist from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest, is many things. As she states in her new memoir, “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of […]
We are fortunate in Colorado to host four beautiful national parks—Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde, Great Sand Dunes, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison—all of which receive a significant amount of admiration and use. Our state […]
In the not-so-distant future, Caro and her brother Pauly live in England with their increasingly on-the-road parents–Francesca, a well-known climate scientist determined to get the word out about impending disaster, and their father, a college […]
Set largely in and around Denver, Jenny Shank’s new short story collection, “Mixed Company,” explores a variety of moments and situations featuring characters with different backgrounds who are navigating their interactions with one another. Sometimes […]
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