David Pace is a writer, literary critic and arts administrator with work appearing in American Theatre, The Christian Science Monitor, Quarterly West, Dialogue, Sunstone, and Irreantum, among other journals, newspapers and a book with a forthcoming narrative non-fiction piece in Alligator Juniper. He was a stage critic in Salt Lake for 10 years, and currently works as Literary Arts Specialist at the Utah Div. of Arts & Museums. He blogs at thelittlehousewedancein.blogspot.com.

 What is your favorite building in Utah?

 The Salt Lake City Library (Despite its propensity for jumpers, both inside and out, I still love this very civic place with the great sight lines. Oh, yes, and then there’s the books.)

 Is there a piece of artwork in your home growing up that you remember in particular?

 “Christina’s World,” by Andrew Wyeth

 If you could choose one writer to encapsulate your life story who would it be?

Cormac McCarthy. An imagined sampling: “Once the mescal was fully quaffed, he stumbled out under the illimitable and terrible sky, tripping through an arroyo and letting loose a sound that only a decrepit god from another, broken world, and on quaaludes, could have issued. ” For a much better parody than this one of THE ROAD, go here.

 What hangs above your mantel?

What mantel? We live in a cottage. But, throughout the house, we do have several oils painted by my wife, a custom picture framer, and her mother.

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UTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.