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After Hours at the Back Room

The Back Room After Hours

The Back Room After Hours is the encore to your favorite author event! It's is where we share what happens next: author reflections, bonus interviews, and the books and ideas that keep us talking long after the event ends.

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Jennifer Hillier: Everything Finds Its Way to the Surface

Notes from the August 16, 2026 event at The Back Room

Jennifer Hillier doesn’t talk about a book until it’s finished. If someone asks what she’s working on, she keeps quiet, even when she knows the answer. “If I told you, I will be looking...

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What We’re Reading: Jennifer Hillier, Hank Phillippi Ryan, LJ Ross, and Robert Thorogood

Ever wondered what your favorite authors are reading? At the Back Room August 16 event, Jennifer Hillier, Hank Phillippi Ryan, LJ Ross, and Robert Thorogood shared the books they can’t stop talking about. From a crime scene house in small-t...

21 days ago
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David Heska Wanbli Weiden: $100 a Bone

Notes from the July 12, 2026 event at The Back Room

David Heska Wanbli Weiden grew up poor in Denver, in a household without money for books. He credits the Denver Public Library with saving him, in his words, and says it planted a dream o...

2 months ago
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Liza Tully: Grudge Expert

Notes from the July 12, 2026 event at The Back Room

Liza Tully used to teach college freshmen how to think. Literally. As a critical thinking instructor, she’d find herself stopping class to walk students back through the difference betwee...

2 months ago
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Ande Pliego: A Love Letter to Fairy Tales, Locked Doors and Libraries After Dark

Notes from the July 12, 2026 event at The Back Room

Ande Pliego did not grow up on the Disney versions of fairy tales. She read the originals, the strange and macabre Brothers Grimm stuff, and fell in love with the darker versions before s...

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