Book-It Repertory Theatre is not intimidated by wide-open spaces. A while back, the company produced the Texas epic "Giant," complete with a cattle drive and cowpokes on horses (you had to be there).

Kent Haruf, the Colorado writer whose 1999 novel “Plainsong” was a finalist for the National Book Award, died Sunday at age 71, his publisher Knopf has announced. He had been battling cancer, and ...

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, ...

"Plainsong" by Kent Haruf. New York, NY: Knopf, 1999. The simple wisdom of Kent Haruf's "Plainsong" is revealed in the choral cast of characters. The interwoven stories stay with the reader long after ...

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 ...

Wondering why I haven’t been reading lately? I have. I promise. I just wasn’t getting anywhere. I had this great idea to read Virgil’s “The Aeneid.” However, it was taking me forever. So I watched ...

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 ...