In our January edition of 15 Bytes we took a look at Lance Larsen, a 2009 Utah Book Award winner. For this week’s Sunday Reading installment, Geoff Wichert reviews another past winner, novelist Christine Allen-Yazzie. “You have to be careful. This one will write it all down.” The Arc and the Sediment: A Novel by...
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Geoff Dyer and Utah
Magnificent Days:Geoff Dyer makes Utah a habit by Geoff Wichert On January 14, British author Geoff Dyer went public with the story of his obsession for vacationing in Utah. He did so in the Financial Times, a London newspaper read by people who live in the world’s most expensive city, where they probably pay more...
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Spoken Word Tonight
Learning to hold our hearts— The Westminster Poetry Series presents:A Free Reading by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Jill McDonoughpart of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry SeriesThursday, January 20 at 7 p.m. in the Dumke Student Theaterin the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory on the Westminster College campus. Poetry, we argue in this month’s edition, is...
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Ken Sanders’ Bureaucratic Nightmare
by Geoff Wichert Last year many Salt Lake residents, who are known for searching the news for local names and familiar faces, were delighted to see downtown bookstore stalwart Ken Sanders recognized as perhaps the nation’s leading enemy of antiquarian book thieves. In The Man Who Loved Books Too Much Allison Hoover Bartlett recounts Sanders’...
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