Units of Thought: An Interview with Pam Rehm
I don’t have a set of beliefs; searching, walking, I am always trying to uncover something that feels true.
Small Press Books for the Obscure and Difficult People on Your Holiday Shopping List
By Sarah Hansen, Colorado Review editorial assistant Holiday gift-giving is tricky even for people you know well, but what about the extremely difficult/wildcard people on your list? Sometimes you draw a weird name in Secret Santa or realize at the last minute that you don’t have a gift for someone who will be at dinner. […]
Five Questions for Mike Meginnis: An interview by Malissa Stark
Reviewer Malissa Stark recently spoke with author Mike Meginnis about his powerful new novel, Fat Boy and Little Man. In this unusual book, Meginnis brings to life the bombs that fell on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, reimagining them as human characters. In the interview, Meginnis explains his creative process and how this book came into existence. […]
The Year of the Essay: A Round-Up
by Karen Montgomery Moore, Colorado Review Associate Editor Thoughts of genre, hybridity, and essays have somehow been central to both my work and my reading in 2014. At times, the label of “essay” seems to be applied as a fall-back, an admittance that there is not always an easy place to shelve work that ranges […]
Colorado Review Podcast: December 2014
Episode 3 Kylan Rice, Sasha Steensen, and Melissa Hohl read and discuss poetry by Julie Carr and Elke Erb.
Kent Haruf, 1943-2014
With great sadness, we learned of Kent Haruf’s passing on Sunday, November 30. Author of the novels The Tie that Binds, Where You Once Belonged, Plainsong, Eventide, Benediction, and Our Souls at Night, he has long been a prominent voice in Colorado literature, specifically of Colorado’s northeastern plains, which don’t get much attention but whose […]
Colorado Review Podcast: November 2014
Episode 2 Nate Barron, Steven Schwartz, and Kylan Rice discuss the short story “The Dogs of Detroit,” by Brad Felver
Interview with Amira Pierce
by Anitra Ingham, Colorado Review Associate Editor “Anything Good Is a Secret,” selected by Kent Nelson as the winner of the 2014 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, appears in the Fall/Winter 2014 issue of Colorado Review. The author, Amira Pierce, generously agreed to share her thoughts on the story with Associate Editor Anitra Ingham. […]
Halloween Book Recommendations: Scary Style Guides
by Angela Mergentime, Colorado Review editorial assistant Here at Colorado Review, we’re big fans of The Chicago Manual of Style. We rely on it for guidance on how and when to use em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens. We turn to it when we can’t remember whether to use a figure or spell out a […]
In the News: Literary Prizes, American Inferiority Complex Edition
by Cornelius FitzPatrick, Colorado Review Associate Editor The winner of the Man-Booker Prize for Fiction was announced yesterday, and the prize went to Australian author Richard Flanagan for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This year marked the first in the Booker’s 46-year history that the prize could be awarded to authors outside […]