Chris Aaland

4 weeks ago | durangotelegraph.com | Jennaye Derge |Chris Aaland |Stephen Eginoire

Ask the cyclista The Colorado Safety Stop and who is the real a$$hole Life in the slow lane Opportunity and frustrations for cycling infrastructure in Durango Brace for impact Riding the post-election roller coaster with support from a village Bicycle-unfriendly For being a ‘bike town,’ Durango scores surprisingly dismal on annual rankings Kiss my asterisk Riders who dare thumb their noses at pro cycling’s strict "code of conduct" On the sag wagon Forced downtime always easier with a little...

2 months ago | durangotelegraph.com | Chris Aaland |Stephen Eginoire |Jeffrey Mannix

In January 2019, I received a reviewer’s galley from Cinco Puntos Press, a publisher I hadn’t known or heard of. The book turned out to be the dreamy gamble of two bookish friends quartered in a rented or borrowed storefront in downtown El Paso, Texas. I love the surprise of handpicked and loved books from gutsy, low-volume, literary entrepreneurs. And who but the genuinely undaunted would presume to make a go of publishing English language novels in a city that’s nearly 90% percent Hispanic?

Feb 6, 2025 | durangotelegraph.com | Chris Aaland |Stephen Eginoire |Jeffrey Mannix

William Boyle is the author of eight books set in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The population of Brooklyn hovers around 3 million, as compared with the resident population of Manhattan at around 2 million and The Bronx at a million and a half. The three are the most populated boroughs of New York City and home to concentrations of immigrants from everywhere in the world.

Jan 9, 2025 | durangotelegraph.com | Chris Aaland |Stephen Eginoire |Jeffrey Mannix

This year’s quarter-century promises some anticipated social and political crescendos to reorder or disfigure comforts or traditions. It appears the bolts have been blowing out of everything, and disintegration is the new progress. The trend from U.S. crime fiction publishers of anti-intellectual product and excessive flummery is following the swirl of disparaging achievement so the unqualified don’t feel unequal. European crime fiction writers soar above only the rarest U.S. counterpart.

Dec 5, 2024 | durangotelegraph.com | Chris Aaland |Stephen Eginoire |Jeffrey Mannix

If you’re thinking of writing a book, want to be a better writer or want to do justice to your own obituary, you’ll want to read William Boyd’s new book by Atlantic Monthly Press, “Gabriel’s Moon.” Boyd is a consummate writer with 17 novels, five collections of short stories, three non-fiction books and four plays. He was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, grew up in Nigeria and now divides his time between London and southwest France.