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Exclusive excerpt from “Going to Trinidad”: A patient arrives at a gender-confirmation crossroads
For 41 years, Dr. Stanley Biber's practice made the southern Colorado town a destination for the surgery. Upon her arrival, Claudine Griggs reflected on how she got there.
SunLit Interview: For Martin J. Smith, “Going to Trinidad” launched a challenging odyssey
From puzzling over a cousin's transition years earlier to tackling the complex nuances of gender, the author found his two-year nonfiction project revealed many things -- including his own naiveté
In this excerpt from “No Man’s Son,” the author recounts her husband’s final day
Michael Chowdry, a Pakastani immigrant, built a cargo airline and a life in Colorado. It all ended too soon when he and a journalist died in a crash.
SunLit Interview: Bravery set Michael Chowdry apart, says his wife and biographer
Linda Chowdry describes a man unafraid to take chances in his life -- from leaving Pakistan, to starting a business, to creating success from failure
The SunLit Interview: Debbi MacLeod’s unsung Colorado library helps bring books to the print-disabled
Part of a national network, the Colorado Talking Book Library serves about 7,000 book lovers statewide. MacLeod wants to serve more.
The SunLit interview: Coronavirus pushed BookBar founder Nicole Sullivan to reimagine her business
When the shutdown hit, she went into survival mode. But gradually, she began to work toward a more meaningful, purposeful model.
The SunLit interview: Clara Villarosa’s Hue-Man Experience finds unexpected new life
The brand she launched in 1984 in Denver to advance books by and about people of color, and later revived in New York City, now will become a curatorial service within the Tattered Cover
The SunLit interview: A conversation with “Wimpy Kid” creator Jeff Kinney
With a new book of spooky stories coming out, the wildly successful author brings a drive-thru experience to four Front Range book stores
Half of the duo known as Linda Keir explains how two authors forged an “almost flawless working relationship”
Denver's Linda Joffe Hull and Chicago's Keir Graff, separated by a thousand miles, have combined their talents on three novels, including their latest, "The Three Mrs. Wrights"
“The Three Mrs. Wrights” explores how protagonists fell victim to an emotional grifter
In this excerpt, one of the women enchanted by the same unscrupulous guy awakens from a dreamlike nap to a whirlwind romantic wedding on a Mexican beach
“Runes for Writers”: How solving writer’s block is kind of like recalling where you left your keys
Though it may sound "a bit woo-woo," author Marc Graham writes that understanding where stories live in our minds can help us tell them better
In “Beware the Eyes of Mars” an android starts to fall for a human under its surveillance
Author Jodi Bowersox puts a unique spin on relationships in this passage about a robot assigned to keep an eye on a beautiful -- by human standards -- criminal suspect
Author Jodi Bowersox launched her sci-fit series as an extension of a previous character’s writing
But how would she handle a romance between a human and an android? That premise led to many other questions she'd have to resolve in her Mars-based plot
A selection of poems from Art Elser’s collection “It Seemed Innocent Enough”
These excerpts cover meditations on being drawn into poetry, appreciating nature, remembering love's spark and even the cosmic significance of a spider's death
Poet Art Elser looked back at life-changing events to fill his collection “It Seemed Innocent Enough”
He finds inspiration all around him, and in life experiences like serving in Vietnam. But his poetic role model was a woman who never stopped writing -- and published a book of her verse at 100.
In “Scholars of Mayhem,” a real-life WWII secret agent’s exploits remained hidden for years in a tin box
Co-author Daniel Guiet knew from an early age that an aura of mystery surrounded the man he called Dad, but it wasn't until years later that his stories could be told
Daniel Guiet pieced together his father’s clandestine life slowly, from a discovery at age 5
The unusual details of the family's life moving to outposts across the globe finally came together when some wartime exploits were declassified, and a detailed account could be assembled
In “Feeling Left Behind,” the widowed author recounts the persistent trauma of a mundane errand
Simple trips to the grocery store nearly brought Kim Murdock to her knees, and to the realization others shared her feelings
