What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

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