Books - The Durango Herald

Banned Books Week highlights value of free and open access

Toni Morrison, J.K. Rowling, Judy Blume, John Green. These authors are some of the most banned or challenged writers in the United States. Their stories have consistently make the...

DATE: Sep 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Catching up with author Rebecca Clarren

Rebecca Clarren has just published her first novel “Kickdown.” She has a strong connection to Durango and will be at Maria’s Bookshop on Thursday. How long ago and for how long di...

DATE: Sep 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Former Durangoan tackles small-town life in debut novel

Clarren to discuss ‘Kickdown’ at Maria’s next week

DATE: Sep 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Craig Johnson’s new book a departure

Depth of Winter a dramatic, forceful story

DATE: Sep 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Local shares her newest novel, ‘Colorado Takedown,’ in Dolores

Rohman offers taste of ‘Colorado Takedown’

DATE: Sep 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Woodward book puts White House back in damage-control mode

WASHINGTON – An incendiary tell-all book by a reporter who helped bring down President Richard Nixon is roiling the White House, as current and former aides of President Donald Trump are quo...

DATE: Sep 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Dylan Farrow to publish two young adult fantasy novels

NEW YORK – Dylan Farrow is getting into the book business by releasing two young adult novels. The story is set in a fantasy world where those in control of society use magic to c...

DATE: Aug 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Chronicling the culinary world of the Navajo

‘Food Sovereignty’ offers recipes, history

DATE: Aug 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

A ‘tantalizing’ theory from Stephen King’s son: Shark thriller ‘Jaws’ holds the clue to an unsolved 1974 murder

The worlds he conjures are full of terror and mischief. One of the novellas in his latest book, “Strange Weather,” tells of a gun massacre. Another recounts a bout of inclement weather that ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Hemingway story from 1956 published for first time

NEW YORK – The themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle. But the story itself has been l...

DATE: Aug 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Book World: Sherlock Holmes may not have been a real crime-fighter, but his creator was

Even now, it is said, people still send letters to Sherlock Holmes, asking for the great detective’s help in solving a crime or righting an injustice. In the past, some of these ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books