“There’s a need for two things in Denver—community spaces and a growing literary scene,” says Dylah Ray, owner of Petals & Pages in the Santa Fe Arts Distri...
One thing I've learned about book reviewing: It's hard to know what to review. Obviously I can cover the top-sellers, throwing in my two cents on what everyone ...
You might remember last year when I attended the used book sale of all used book sales, and--thank God!--just like every year, the Denver Public Library is at i...
Now that I'm on-board with this whole e-reader thing, I'm discovering all sorts of neat stuff. Here's one particularly fascinating tidbit: Did you know that you...
My parents have recently moved into a new house in the foothills with plenty of room to spread out. Between that and their first grandchild, my daughter, starti...
Spring, we hope, is now officially here. For me, the season's arrival is reminiscent of strolls and bike rides through parks, with long stops on benches to gaze...
What a great thing to celebrate--that likely gorgeous building just down the street from you, filled with fantastic, old-smelling books and infinite knowledge a...
I'm always down for a mystery. Make it a murder-mystery and I'm totally in. And if you really add a twist and a demented psychopathic character or two? Well, th...
One of the best parts of reading an expatriate classic--think Hemingway, Fitzgerald as obvious choices--is that they are real. Hemingway especially based his wr...
I've read all of the Hunger Games books, sure. And I've hyped on the hype about the books and the upcoming movie--oh, you know, the one that drops tonight at mi...
When I finished Mockingjay, the last of the Hunger Games series a few weeks ago, I was sad. I was sad I was done reading the books, sad that the story had come ...
So often I fall victim to my circumstances. Sure, I call myself organized, self-motivated, determined; but I'm not above letting a failure get the best of me. I...
Sarah Ann Noel holds an MFA from NYU's Writers Workshop - Paris. She is the co-founder of Denver's curated reading series, Reading Den. She has published both fiction and non-fiction and is working on her first novel.
