Literature - The Durango Herald

Native American writer Joy Harjo is named U.S. Poet Laureate

“My role as a poet is as a healer,” said Joy Harjo. “Poetry is a healing force.” The 68-year-old Native American writer first felt that restorative power during a difficult time e...

DATE: Jun 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Southwest writers and readers at Cortez Literary Festival

Fans of Anne Hillerman fill library for opening night reception

DATE: Jun 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Community

‘Moby-Dick’ fan sailed from Italy to Nantucket – ending 1,500 feet short

In April 2018, septuagenarian Vittorio Fabris set out for what he thought would be a solitary 20,000-mile journey around the world. Inspired by “Moby-Dick,” he planned to spend 1½ years circ...

DATE: Jun 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Blake Crouch’s new novel worth the ‘time’

Author will launch ‘Recursion’ next week at El Moro

DATE: Jun 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Tony Horwitz, ‘Confederates in the Attic’ author, dies at 60

BOSTON – Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of “Confederates in the Attic,” has died. He was 60. Sarah Hutson, director of publicity at ...

DATE: May 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Book World: ‘My Favorite Murder’ co-hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark are expanding their empire

“True crime has always been popular,” Karen Kilgariff says. The fascination may be as old as murder itself, “but now people are acknowledging it instead of hiding in their houses watching fo...

DATE: May 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Book World: John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace

On a grimy peninsula off the mainland of good taste, in a Baltimore far from the threatening realism of “The Wire,” still reigning over his own personal filthdom, lives the original Pope of ...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Cortez Literary Festival to attract dozens of authors

Nine workshops will focus on writing and research

DATE: May 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Durangoan’s book takes readers behind lines of Nazi-occupied France

‘Scholars of Mayhem’ explores Jean Claude Guiet’s clandestine work

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Vonnegut museum raises $1.5 million for new home

INDIANAPOLIS – The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis has reached its goal of raising $1.5 million to acquire and begin renovations on a building to serve as its permanent home...

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books