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 — […]
SunLit Interviews
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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 […]