Tattered Cover Book Store was cited as one of the many reasons why "Denver is burning up" by the Matador Network, which wrote that the city "is a place where--perhaps more so than anywhere else in America--creative people are encouraged, sponsored and enthusiastically celebrated." Tattered Cover was cited as "a massive independent bookstore that hosts as many as 400 authors, illustrators, and other people-with-interesting-things-to-say every year."