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These award-winning Colorado authors offer their picks to kickstart your 2020 reading list

The 2019 literary year was another outstanding one for Colorado authors, and here at SunLit we captured a lot of the great books that won prestigious awards, and offered both excerpts and insight into these talented writers. And while you’re certainly welcome to take a look back through the archives of excerpts and author interviews, […]

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How the 2003 Iraq war led a Colorado author to write a novel about the War of 1812

Nick Arvin’s most recent novel, “Mad Boy“ (Europa Editions, 2018), won the 2019 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction. His first novel, Articles of War (Doubleday, 2005), won the 2006 Colorado Book Award and was selected for the One Book, One Denver reading program. He lives in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The following is an interview […]

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In wartime, a boy and a redcoat converge in an abandoned house and form an awkward alliance

Nick Arvin’s most recent novel, Mad Boy (Europa Editions, 2018), won the 2019 Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction. His first novel, Articles of War (Doubleday, 2005), won the 2006 Colorado Book Award and was selected for the One Book, One Denver reading program. He lives in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The following is an excerpt […]