“I’ve got a lot to do. That’s what keeps me around,” says Jeff Metcalf, who has been in a battle with cancer for the past 18 years, with many ups and downs during that time. He possesses a sense of purpose and determination that very few of us […]
In celebration of the 6-week-long Utah Humanities Book Festival, 15 Bytes is featuring novelist Anthony Doerr who arrives in Utah September 23 for three days to read and discuss his latest work, the novel All The Light We Cannot See (Scribner, 2014). Everyone wants to know what an […]
In 2008, The End of the Straight and Narrow, a collection of short stories by then-grad student David McGlynn, won the Utah Book Award. In 2012, McGlynn, now a professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, published A Door In the Ocean, a memoir that “charts the violent origins […]
Former Utah Poet Laureate and Guggenheim Fellow Katharine Coles is 15 Bytes’ inaugural Sunday Blog Read. Each month we’ll be posting for your reading enjoyment literary works-in-progress…works soon-to-be-published…or, as in the case of today, works recently released. The Sunday Blog Read is a glimpse into the working minds […]
