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Like The Wire, Julian Rubinstein’s The Holly mines Black violence for the sake of drama—rendering the Park Hill community largely invisible.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Unlike the articles he read in the Denver media, Rubinstein didn’t want to shine undue light on the city’s power brokers, and instead spent most of his time reporting on what he calls “invisible Denver” — the neighborhood communities, activist circles and even gangs that are so often ignored by the mainstream press. “What I wanted to do — and it turned out to be even more important than I first realized — was to tell this story mostly from the perspective of the people who were not represented over the years in those types of stories,” he says. “I...

The HOLLY: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood , which was released May 11. This excerpt from The HOLLY picks up as Rubinstein is looking for the answer to a question that echoes through the book: Why did activist Terrance Roberts shoot Hasan Jones? As a steady rise in Denver’s gang violence continued, the city’s federal anti-gang effort was conspicuously absent from public reporting. I couldn’t find any mention of it since the prestigious grant had been announced in 2010. One night, I went to a public meeting of the Holly Area Redevelopment Project...

"The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle To Save an American Neighborhood," by award-winning investigative journalist Julian Rubinstein, te