Regional Telluride local Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn, author of “Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land," and a recipient of the Orion Book Award and the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers’ Award. Amy is also founder of Telluride's Literary Burlesque, the signature (read, always...
Founded by award-winning author-poet-teacher and Telluride local Amy Irvine, Literary Burlesque is the signature, (read, always sold-out), event of the Telluride Literary Arts Festival, or Lit Fest, May 19-21. Tickets, $15, are on sale now at Telluride’s Ah Haa School or Between the Covers Bookstore. You snooze, you lose. (Other...
Are you a Valentine’s Day cynic? Do you object to all the sappy sentiment with sugar on top we are forced to consume in excess on one particular day in February? Are you over the oh-so-impersonal flowers, chocolates, and too cute teddy bear staples that pretty much scream, “I gave this...
Literary Burlesque, an evening of baring it all in word (for sure) and deed (almost, which makes it all more sensual), has become the highlight of the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. And from the get-go, one of the stars of the all-star show (and an event co-founder)...
