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Durango native co-writes sweeping novel ‘The Reluctant Conductor’

Tim Turner, Moisey Gorbaty tell tale of family, survival – and music

DATE: Feb 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dies at 89

‘House Made of Dawn’ is considered as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature

DATE: Jan 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Stanley Hotel in Estes Park – inspiration for ‘The Shining’ – is being sold to an Arizona nonprofit

Part of plan is to build long-awaited Stanley Film Center

DATE: Dec 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Music fans: Think you know The Cure?

New book, ‘Curepedia,’ gives readers the A-Z of the iconic band

DATE: Dec 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Books for Santa’s favorite young readers

Stuck for a gift? Here are some suggestions for even the tiniest bookworms

DATE: Nov 30, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Salman Rushdie releasing memoir about 2022 attack

NEW YORK – Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder...

DATE: Oct 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Helping keep mining history alive

Christopher George to talk about his new book

DATE: Oct 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

A rare Truman Capote story from the early 1950s published for the first time

NEW YORK – Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished. Capote, who died in 1984 shortly be...

DATE: Sep 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Craig Johnson back with another ‘Longmire’ adventure

“The Longmire Defense,” by Craig Johnson is quite the journey into the life and times of Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Fans of the Longmire series will be thrilled with...

DATE: Sep 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment