Denver Post: Books

Over the course of 18 books and more than three decades, Mary Taylor Young has written about everything from Rocky Mountain National Park to the tall grasses and stark skies of Colorado’s Eastern Plains.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Fiction
There, There
By Tommy Orange
(Knopf)
This is an intricate and intense first novel that tells the stories of 12 connected (although also sometimes disconnected) characters, all of whom fit in some way with Orange’s imagining of Urban Indians in Oakland, Calif., who “know the sound of the freeway better than (they) do rivers.”

Joshua Viola has good reason to be excited for Denver Pop Culture Con this weekend.
“I sold more books there than I ever thought I would,” the 36-year-old said of the convention formerly known as Denver Comic Con.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River.

The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
By Tommy Tomlinson
(Simon & Schuster)
Tommy Tomlinson does not hold back in his memoir about losing weight, immediately punching the reader in the face with a blunt confession of how much he weighs at the beginning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Denver witches and wizards, accio smelling salts because you are about to pass out upon learning of a Harry Potter-themed brunch apparating to Denver this summer.
The event, called The Wizard’s Brunch, will feature a themed three-course meal, a potions lesson, fortune tellers and house points, according to a release sent this morning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

One calls himself “the world’s worst-skiing ski patroller.” That’s Eric Miller, who lives in Colorado Springs when he’s not traveling as a flight nurse, a member of the Air National Guard.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Andrew Travers, Aspen Times
After his historic free-climb ascent of the El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park in early 2015, Tommy Caldwell stared down a nearly as daunting challenge: a blank page.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

So you didn’t get tickets to see Michelle Obama at the Pepsi Center on Thursday.
There’s another chance to see the former first lady in Denver during her national tour to promote her book, “Becoming.”
The Tattered Cover on Tuesday announced it would be hosting Obama at a book signing at 2:30 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Michelle Obama’s 12-stop jaunt across the country — and an ocean — is not your average book tour. Of course, the former first lady is not your average author.
Oprah Winfrey joined Obama Tuesday night at the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks, as she begins the tour touting the already best-selling “Becoming.”
Obama will come to Denver’s Pepsi Center in exactly one month’s time– Dec.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share