Literature

DALLAS – Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and returned them to modern-day landscapes in...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Anaya’s niece,...

Pam Houston’s newest book, “Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country,” is a magical blend of essays that are somehow both memoir and autobiography. She manages to beautifully marry her life...

When a young child has a full bookshelf at home, they perform better in school, and their future becomes a lot brighter. That’s why the Cortez Rotary Club has embarked on a fundraising campaign to...

The Dolores Public Library has kicked off a community-wide reading program featuring local authors. Also, a re-enactment of a pioneer cattlewoman will be presented this month. On Oct. 4 at 6:30...

Durangoan Ed Lehner has a lot on his plate. The retired professor is a luthier, poet, does work as an instrument repairman for the Be Frank Foundation and is a self-proclaimed “kind of a hack”...

Popular Southwestern author Anne Hillerman on Friday kicked off the Cortez Literary Festival, encouraging writers and artists from the Four Corners Area to embrace serendipity but prepare for...

The public is invited to attend a flurry of free writing and poetry workshops at the inaugural Cortez Literary Festival June 7-8. Keynote speaker Anne Hillerman will kick off the Cortez Library...

The Journal Cortez Public Library will host the Cortez Literary Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. June 7 and 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 8, at Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St. The first annual Cortez...

On Jan. 26, Cortez writer Curt Melliger will read from and talk about his new book, “Heaven Here on Earth,” published this year by Ozark Mountain Publishing. The presentation begins at 1 p.m. at...

The Cortez Public Library celebrates Women’s History Month by hosting local writer and scholar Margaret “Midge” Kirk, who will introduce her book “They Persisted,” a tome that honors women who made...