Bears Invade Aspen, Colorado: A Brief Round Up
Posted by admin in Blog on 05. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
It’s that time of year again in our fabled mountain town. As the summer sun begins to wane and cast autumn’s long, golden mountain shadows, the local high country black bruins are in a calorie-cramming feeding frenzy.
Bears Invade Aspen, Colorado: A Brief Round Up
An Interview with Best-selling Author Ishmael Beah
Posted by admin in Aspen, Blog, Interviews, Showcase on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
It’s not the type of thing you expect to hear from an accomplished author. On the second day of the Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival, Ishmael Beah, the one-time child solider in the Sierra Leone civil war and author of A Long Way Gone, glanced around the room after being asked about his forthcoming novel. His eyes landed on his co-presenter, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and admitted, “I feel it is unhealthy for me to write another memoir.”
Aspen Ideas Festival: A Guide to Who Said What at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival
Posted by admin in Aspen, Blog, Showcase on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
In the context of ski town slang, “Go big” is the type of gnarly, half-baked euphemism usually reserved for adrenaline-fueled physical prowess on the slopes or throwing back one more shot-and-a-beer before last call.
Ten Great Books putting Aspen on the American Literary Map
Posted by admin in Aspen, Blog, Travel Writing on 18. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
For decades devoted bookworms and “Dead Poets Society” quoting high school English teachers have flocked to Hemingway’s Key West, Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New York, Steinbeck’s Monterey, Ginsberg’s and Kerouac’s San Francisco, Faulkner’s Mississippi, and Robert Frost’s New England on their summer vacations to celebrate the authors who worked there and assess the creative muses inspiring the great works of American literature associated with these locales. Yet, for whatever reason, well-read literati and travel list arbiters have never ranked Aspen, Colorado on the lists of great American literary destinations.
