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Prize-winning poet still at work at age 86

NEW YORK – He is 86 years old, his eyesight is failing and much of his recent work reads like a man saying goodbye. But W.S. Merwin continues to write poems; he cannot help himsel...

Colorful past comes to life

‘Shootout at the El Moro’ recounts 1906 tragedy in Durango

The Home Place a strong debut for Carrie La Seur

“The Home Place” (William Morrow), by Carrie La Seur Carrie La Seur’s finely crafted debut chronicles a woman’s complicated relationship with her hometown of Billings, Montana, he...

Book Buzz: Dueling ‘Mockingbirds’ duke it out on list

Apparently there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned author smackdown to propel book sales. Last week famously reclusive author Harper Lee, 88, made headlines disavowing;http://ww...

Burke fashions epic story in Wayfaring Stranger

Wayfaring Stranger (Simon & Schuster), by James Lee Burke Author James Lee Burke is a descendant of tough Texas lawmen. In fact, his maternal great-grandfather once tangled with s...

What goes into editing a book? Ask the editors

Pair of New York publishing figures to discuss books, more at Maria’s Bookshop

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, author, activist, dies

JOHANNESBURG – Nadine Gordimer was first a writer of fiction and a defender of creativity and expression. But as a white South African who hated apartheid’s dehumanization of blacks, she was...

For author Ben Winters, the apocalypse is now

INDIANAPOLIS — Ben H. Winters isn’t on a survivalist kick, and he’s not an author who jumped on the zombie bandwagon.;http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/07/08/time-nigh-be...

A life woven through 2 cultures

Former Durango resident to read from her memoir

Review: New Neil Armstrong book glides, not soars

“Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight” (St. Martin’s Press), by Jay Barbree This is not a definitive biography of the man who first walked on the moon. It’s not even authorized by his...

War hero, Olympian Louis Zamperini dies at 97

Runner’s life was the subject of best-seller ‘Unbroken’

Poet offers literary feast in A Moveable Famine

In an autobiographical novel, which parts are fiction and which are fact? Only the author knows for sure. But when such a work is as entertaining as John Skoyles’ “A Moveable Famine,” it har...