What inspired you to write this book? The inspiration for “Wishing Caswell Dead” started with one image left over from a dream: a tintype photo of a girl with tangled curly hair. I wrote a short story first, but it wasn’t enough. I wanted to know more about the other characters and how they all […]
SunLit Interviews
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Interview: After conquering Everest, blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and writer Buddy Levy want to lean into life’s chaos
Erik Weihenmayer Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. No Barriers is the moving story of his journey since descending Mount Everest: from leading expeditions around the world with blind Tibetan teenagers to helping injured soldiers climb their way home from war, from adopting a son from Nepal […]
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Excerpt: “The Newcomers”
2018 Colorado Book Award winner for creative nonfiction Editor’s note: Many SunLit selections are meant for adult readers and may contain sexual or violent content. Nice to Meet You On the first day of school — it was going to be a ninety-degree scorcher and you could already feel the air starting to shimmer — […]
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SunLit interview: Author Helen Thorpe
The author’s powerful and moving work describes how refugee students at a Denver public high school learn English and become Americans in the care of a compassionate teacher. “The Newcomers” follows the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the course of the 2015–2016 school year as they land at South High School in Denver, in […]
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SunLit interview: Author Matthew Sullivan
When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Bedazzling, addictive, and wildly clever, “Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore” is a heart-pounding mystery that perfectly captures the intellect and eccentricity of the bookstore milieu […]