Nicholas Triolo and Brian Laidlaw In Conversation
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Monday, Oct 5, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl St
Details
Nicholas Triolo and Brian Laidlaw will speak about and sign their new books, The Way Around: Walking a Reimagined Path and Erratica: On Climbing, Language, and Loving Stone, on Monday, October 5th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore. Tickets for this event are $5 (plus a small processing fee) and are available on Eventbrite.
About The Way Around by Nicholas Triolo:
Growing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepening discontent.
While traveling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object--a kind of "ritualized remembering" birthed by place. Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumambulation, he sets out here on three such extended walks. At once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes, The Way Around models what it means to experience a true revolution of heart and home--for the flourishing of all.
About Erratica by Brian Laidlaw:
After Brian Laidlaw climbed El Capitan, Yosemite’s iconic stone monolith, he found himself facing a repeated question: “So, what was it like up there?” It isn’t enough, he knows, to just to describe the sensation of the rock beneath his hands and feet—a climb is so much more than physical movement.
This seemingly simple question initiates Brian’s poetic quest for the perfect metaphor, traveling from the erratics of his youth in California to the towers of his current home in Moab, Utah. Along the way, he beckons us into a community bound as much by narrative as by rope. Exhilarating and lyrical, approachable yet profound, Erratica invites us to share a rope with this community of climbers, to measure our humanity against the expanse of stone.
IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
Tickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).
A coupon good for $5 off a copy of The Way Around or Erratica, or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.
Please note: our events are held on the second floor. To request a reasonable accommodation or discuss your needs, contact us.
