Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Kent Haruf wrote the words to accompany Peter Brown’s photo display on the quiet isolation of life in rural eastern Colorado: “You have to know how to look ...

I am going to commit literary hara kari and publicly admit I don’t love Hemingway. Yes, I see the beauty in his writing, and yes, he changed the dialogue and voice of contemporary American fiction, ...

Every year or so, lightning strikes a literary novel by an unknown author and it is zapped toward the top of the best-seller lists. It happened with "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, it happened ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Plainsong” is the silver spur of a trio of new American plays now being presented simultaneously by the Denver Center Theatre Company. Individually, each ...

DENVER — The play version of “Plainsong” is as comforting as it is unsentimental, funny as it is poignant. Taken from the page to the stage, it’s a completely satisfying story. Set in a small town in ...

To scoffers who attacked my native Midwest, mostly back in college days, I would quote Adlai Stevenson: "In quiet places, reason abounds." It seemed a succinct defense of small-town America. In those ...