This is kinda where it all began. Ten years ago I was in the midst of a seven year stint as a stay-at-home mother to our two young children. I began craving adult collaboration and missing the satisfaction of working …
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BookBar Turns 7: Ch-Ch-Changes (Turn and Face the Strange)
Chapter 7: Every person, business, and organization has handled this Covid situation differently. For me, roughly half-way through the shut-down and quarantine, I resolved to come out of this a better person and to make BookBar a better business.
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Raising Readers
By Marilyn Robbins Raising a reader is one of the most important gifts you can give your child. Learning to read is not easy. It takes a lot of hard work for several years for any child to master reading …
Pam Houston Workshop Recap
By Stephanie Vessely We often hear people say that writing is a practice, and it is. One must constantly work at improving one’s craft by forming sentence after sentence, day after day, year after year. But for writer Pam Houston, …
BookBar Review: Deep Creek by Pam Houston
Deep Creek – BookBar Book Review Stephanie Vessely “For now,” writes Pam Houston in Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, “I want to sit vigil with the earth…I want to write unironic odes to …
Amy Irvine Sits Down With Rachel Hamalian To Talk About Edward Abbey, Writing, and The Desert
Rachel Hamalain: In your new book, Desert Cabal, you confront the claims that Edward Abbey made in his book, Desert Solitaire – on its 50th anniversary. What inspired you to make this confrontation? Amy Irvine: It’s a very odd backstory. …
Cheetahs, Writing, and Publishing OH MY!: A conversation with Erin Hunter
by Rachel Hamalian Gillian Philip is one of the authors under the pen name, Erin Hunter. She has written for the Survivors series, along with Inbali Iserles. She lives in the northeast Scottish Highlands with her husband, three dogs, two cats, and …
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Announcing 1st Annual Burning Book Festival
Burning Book A city in the far-flung suburbs. A culture of literacy. A network of readers and introverts Festivals are all the rage today and literary festivals are certainly no exception. BookBar is excited to announce the first annual Burning …
Black History Month Colorado Author Series: Monique Antonette Lewis
We’re recognizing some of Colorado’s best black authors this month, so keep an eye out for more going forward. Monique Antonette Lewis, essayist, fiction writer, editor and journalist, is the founder of At The Inkwell, a multi-city literary reading series …
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Jessica Townsend’s new middle grade fantasy Nevermoor gets magic and wonder ‘just right’
We had such fun hosting middle grade author, Jessica Townsend, at BookBar. Review by: Widget, BookWorm, age 9 Morrigan Crow is going to die. She will, as every cursed child does, leave this world. But Morrigan doesn’t think that she’ll …
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