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Firoozeh Dumas up next at Aspen Winter Words
In the effort to cross cultural gaps, there are some things humor simply cannot achieve. For instance: Shake ‘n Bake. more...
  01/31/2010 8:01am
Jumping off the page: Aspen Winter Words kicks off
ASPEN — The model of a writer as someone who toils in seclusion, leaving his favored nook only when necessary, and providing the world with nothing but his words on a page, is one that may endure to this day — but just barely.
  01/26/2010 4:47am
Aspen Writers' Foundation releases Winter Words lineup
ASPEN — The Aspen Writers' Foundation has announced the lineup for its 2010 Winter Words series. The 13th annual Winter Words includes six events, with prominent writers reading their work and talking about their craft.
  12/08/2009 4:28am
Two Aspen Community School teachers put nature at kids' fingertips
WOODY CREEK — Anyone who's spent time in Colorado's high country has no doubt encountered a marmot and heard the call that gives it the nickname “whistle pig.” But did you know each animal has a different call so marmots within a colony...
  12/07/2009 4:42am
To stage a ‘Mockingbird' in Aspen
ASPEN — In “After the Storm,” a documentary about staging a musical in post-Katrina New Orleans that shows this week at Aspen Filmfest, the producer throws up his hands on the eve of opening night
  09/26/2009 8:27am
New voice rises from the ashes for Aspen writer Scott Lasser
ASPEN — Aspenite Scott Lasser was jogging in New York City's Central Park when the airplanes hit the World Trade Center towers.
  07/09/2009 5:03am
Colum McCann makes appearance at Aspen Summer Words
ASPEN — On a recent stay in a New York hospital, Colum McCann took his bed-ridden days as an opportunity to revisit “Ulysses,” James Joyce's immortal Irish classic that takes place on one day, June 16, 1904.
  06/22/2009 4:26pm
Onward and upward for Aspen Writers' Foundation
ASPEN — Times are not especially good for the written word. Newspapers are being decimated; book publishers are struggling with a variety of issues, not the least of which is coping with the rise of digital formats. On top of that, reading itself...
  06/21/2009 7:08am
Greer up next for Aspen Winter Words
ASPEN — Andrew Sean Greer found inspiration for his latest novel, “The Story of a Marriage,” in something his grandmother once said.
  03/26/2009 4:51am
Eugenides: Lost in the woods, and loving it
ASPEN — Jeffrey Eugenides has some advice for Detroit’s automakers.
  03/18/2009 12:25am
Author's Aspen lecture canceled
ASPEN — Because of illness, author Sara Gruen’s lecture scheduled for Thursday at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen has been canceled.
  03/04/2009 5:10am
Jay Cowan's new book presents Hunter Thompson from another perspective
ASPEN — Jay Cowan says that his friend, foil and property-mate Hunter S. Thompson would have loved certain aspects of Cowan’s new book about Thompson.
  02/27/2009 5:31am
‘Blue Bottle’ marks literary leap for Jill Sheeley
ASPEN — In “The Blue Bottle,” Fraser the yellow lab and his mistress Courtney are off on their biggest adventure yet.
  02/21/2009 8:03pm
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