Reading Priya Sharma’s first collection of short stories All the Fabulous Beasts, I found myself thinking fairy and folk tales were the first fantasies, with snakes and birds masquerading as human, and gods getting involved in human dramas, as they do in Western and Eastern mythologies.  Sharma’s influences include Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, a reworking of classic fairy tales that she found “beautifully written and actually quite subversive as well.”

The Cohen Veterans Network, which runs mental health clinics across the country, has arrived in Colorado with its pledge that therapists will see those who have served since 9/11 and their families within a week of initial screening.

Aretha Franklin gave a slow, unadorned, almost funereal rendition of our national anthem. A version you could take a knee to. A version that gave me the title for my book.

Only one facility in the nation, at the University of Mississippi, has federal approval to grow marijuana for research, creating a bottleneck even as military veterans press for studies into a drug many believe can help relieve their PTSD symptoms. The clamor to try something new like marijuana is driven by frustration with old remedies. 

A conversation with Anne Trujillo on Denver Channel 7's weekly political affairs program.

Anne ensured it was a relaxed interaction.

But war correspondent? Not so much. I did not write the intro. Interesting how often people assume a foreign correspondent is a war correspondent.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/politics/writer-finds-war-conversations-more-obvious-in-colorados-small-towns-inner-cities

Military veteran and first-time novelist Matthew Robinson tells me he has a compulsion to try to bridge the divide between the tiny population of Americans who have fought the war on terror and the rest of us, whose obliviousness can seem like cruelty.

In her Pioneer Girl, novelist Bich Minh Nguyen offers us Lee, a protagonist who is both a thief and a literary sleuth. The morally complex detectives of the best mysteries always interest me more than the whodunnit puzzles of the stories' crimes.