Tonight Renewal opens at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. In the exhibit “nine artists breathe life into discarded or forgotten objects in this visually striking collection of three dimensional arts.” Curator Jason Lanegan has also asked nine local writers to respond to the works. We’ll be running some of these pairs...
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Passages: Sam Wellers, Library Sale & Utah Book Award
Over eighty years after they first began, Sam Weller’s Bookstore is still in business and in the process of moving to their new 10,000 square foot location at Trolley Square Mall. They’ll be leaving their long-time space at the historic David Keith Building on Salt Lake’s Main Street later this month. And like anyone who...
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Gerald Elias at Kings English
Local author Gerald Elias will be at Kings English Bookstore Tuesday night to read from and sign his third murder mystery, Death and the Maiden. Elias will be more familiar to the arts community as a violinist, associate concertmaster for the Utah Symphony and professor of music at the University of Utah. In 2009 he...
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Alas, Poor Everett
Two events this weekend, Poor Yorick Studios & Spectrum Studios Fall Equinox Open Studios and controversy at the Escalante Arts Festival.
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J.A.C. Redford’s Rest Now, My Sister
Utah Chamber Artists Executive Director Becky Durham sends us a post about the premier this Monday and Tuesday of a new work by composer J.A.C. Redford based on the brutal murder of the composer's sister-in-law last December.
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Maximilian Werner at King’s English Tonight
Tonight local author Maximilian Werner will read from and sign his new novel, Crooked Creek, at The King’s English Bookstore in Salt Lake City. Two percent of each book’s cover price is donated to environmental organizations in the West. Werner teaches writing at the University of Utah. Our review of Werner’s novel appears in the...
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Maximilian Werner’s Crooked Creek
Review of Crooked Creek, the newly published novel by University of Utah professor Maximilian Werner.
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Michael Ondaatje at the City Library
Not every novel that wins the Man Booker Prize—the annual award that over 40 years has become the world-wide benchmark of literary publishing—goes on to achieve wide notoriety, any more than every film that wins an Academy Award turns out to be a timeless masterpiece. One novel that, along with the movie made from it,...
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Poetry Out Loud 2011
by Laura Durham “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” — T.S. Eliot Most of us remember studying poetry in grade school. Poetry taught us about language, rhythm imagery and symbolism. Many of us were too young to truly understand what the poet was communicating, but nevertheless, we read poetry in our classes and...
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Memoir: recollection without tranquility?
by Geoff Wichert Literary tastes lead to literary debates. Readers disagree about subjects and treatments, and one reader’s favorite book is the object of another’s scorn. It is ever thus, and should be; lively opinions make for better, more attentive reading. But what about entire genres? Even those who don’t love poetry read it, and...
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Billy Collins
Living in a rural area far from large numbers of people can have advantages in terms of peace of mind, pace of life, and closeness to nature. One drawback, however, is in access to things that tend to accompany, if not to require, those large populations. If you live in parts of Sanpete County, you...
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