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Joy Harjo picture book ‘Remember’ to come out next year

NEW YORK – Joy Harjo, who recently completed a three-year run as the country’s poet laureate, will have a picture book out next spring. Random House Children’s Books announced Wednesday that...

DATE: Jul 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Blake Crouch’s new novel an unsettling look into future

Author will be at El Moro on Sunday for early release, signing of ‘Upgrade’

DATE: Jul 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Two rare Shirley Jackson stories published this week

NEW YORK – Shirley Jackson had a gift for evoking the depths of anxiety in the space it might take to summarize a baseball game. Two very brief and previously unreleased stories, “Charlie Ro...

DATE: Jun 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Productive pandemic: Jennaye Derge wrote book during COVID-19 lockdown

Book-release party to be held at Rochester’s Secret Garden Remember the worst of the pandemic, when we were all sequestered in our homes? I don’t know about the rest of you, but in my h...

DATE: May 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Hillerman’s new book a welcome addition to series

Author will be at Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, Farmington Public Library

DATE: May 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Instead of banning ‘Maus,’ take opportunity to learn from it

A lot of talk and action has been going on in the United States recently about banning “inappropriate” books. The graphic novel “Maus” by Art Spiegleman, first published in book form in 1986...

DATE: Apr 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

New book chronicles hiking Colorado Trail

‘Uphill Both Ways’ examines the ultimate family field trip

DATE: Mar 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Cormac McCarthy has 2 novels coming out in the fall

NEW YORK – Cormac McCarthy has two novels coming out this fall, his first fiction releases since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road” in 2006. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday t...

DATE: Mar 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Durangoan’s book has international reach

Janet Jones’ ‘Horse Brain, Human Brain’ awarded Japan’s Equine Culture Award

DATE: Feb 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

The gift of reading: Suggestions for the young readers on your holiday shopping list

From picture books to young adult, here are some stories to check out

DATE: Dec 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Author Alice Sebold apologizes to man cleared in 1981 rape

NEW YORK – Author Alice Sebold publicly apologized Tuesday to the man who was exonerated last week in the 1981 rape that was the basis for her memoir “Lucky” and said she was struggling with...

DATE: Nov 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Longmire series returns with ‘Daughter of the Morning Star’

In “Daughter of the Morning Star,” the 17th book in Craig Johnson’s well-loved Longmire series, Walt and Henry Standing Bear, otherwise known as the Cheyenne Nation, are out of Walt’s distr...

DATE: Oct 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment