Read-aloud favorite Judy Schachner will present her newest Skippyjon Jones book, Lost in Spice!

Local storyteller Cheryl presents Storytime!

One of the most respected names in contemporary American literature--Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo will read from and sign his new book at The King's English Bookshop, Tuesday, October 6 at 7 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public.

That Old Cape Magic, currently in its sixth week on The New York Times best seller list, accompanies Jack Griffin, a middle-aged professor in a humdrum marriage, on a drive to Cape Cod for the wedding of his daughter's best friend. He's flooded with memories of his annual childhood vacations on the Cape with his parents--bickering, intellectually snobbish academics who are dismissive of each other and the world at large. More than anything, Jack doesn't want to be like them, but with his father's ashes in the trunk (in nearly a year, he hasn't been able to decide where to scatter them), and his demanding mother just a cell phone call away, he's unable to escape their influence.

Calling Russo "A master of the comic quip and the ridiculous situation," the Washington Post said That Old Cape Magic is "a marvelous portrayal of the strands of affection and irritation that run through a family, entangling in-laws and children's crushes and even old friends."

Russo's tragicomic take on life and careful eye for relationships are a trademark of much of his work, which includes seven novels and several screenplays and teleplays. Much of his fiction, like Empire Falls, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, chronicles small town America, fictional down-on-their-luck towns of the industrial Northeast and the blue-collar workers trying to survive in them as they face money, marriage, class and other daunting issues.

Kaleb Nation, author and blogger of The Twilight Guy fame, who turned 20 in 2008, presents the first book in his series, Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse.

Bran Hambric was found locked in a bank vault at six years old,
with no memory of his past. For years, he has lived with one of the
bankers, wondering why he was left behind -- until one night, when
he is fourteen, he is suddenly confronted by a maddened creature,
speaking of Bran’s true past and trying to kidnap him.

Bran finds that he is at the center of a plot which started
years before he was even born: the plot of a deadly curse his mother
created…and one that her former masters are hunting for him to
complete.

Haunted by the spirit of his mother’s master and living in a city
where magic is illegal, Bran must undo the crimes of his
past...before it is too late.

AUTHORS’ RECEPTION, SELECTED READINGS, AND BOOK SIGNINGS

SALT LAKE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
4TH FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
210 EAST 400 SOUTH, SLC

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED BY
OCTOBER 8

$30 PER PERSON*
Your check payable to AAUW-Wasatch Branch will secure your reservation. Send to:

Marilyn Shearer
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Salt Lake City, UT 84109

QUESTIONS? Please call:
Sue Nissen 801-484-4015
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Pat Bagley and Charles Lynn Frost (standing in for Sister Dottie S. Dixon) will be at the King's English Tuesday, October 13th, signing their book, Mormon Kama Sutra.

One of the most respected names in contemporary American literature--National Book Award recipient Sherman Alexie--will read from and sign his new collection of fiction, War Dances.

Alexie has written three story collections, two screenplays, 12 volumes of poetry (including Face, published last March) and three novels, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the 2007 National Book Award winner for Young People's fiction. True Diary was inspired by Alexie's own remarkable, improbable life, from his birth with hydrocephalus (doctors didn't expect him to live, and certainly not without retardation), to his determined 44-mile daily round-trip walk to a "better" high school off the reservation, to the pinnacle of literary success.

Former Denver Broncos captain and All-Pro, Karl
Mecklenburg presents and signs Heart of a Student Athlete. Karl's pro
career included six Pro Bowl and three Super Bowl appearances.

David Mas Masumoto will present his latest book, The Wisdom of the Last Farmer.

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein presents The Challenge of the Soul: A Guide for the Spiritual Warrior, to help us get beyond our perceived limitations and face life's challenges with fearlessness and fortitude.

At the I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center in Salt Lake City.

During the fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, we will bring together a poet, and mathematician, and a composer to think together about how they are shaped by the languages they use, and about how they are shaped by their own encounters with work created in languages not their own.

For more information, visit www.scienceandliterature.org 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston present The Tree That Time Built, an anthology of more than 100 poems
celebrating the wonders of the natural world and encouraging environmental awareness.

During the fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, we will bring together a poet, and mathematician, and a composer to think together about how they are shaped by the languages they use, and about how they are shaped by their own encounters with work created in languages not their own.

For more information, visit www.scienceandliterature.org 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

During the fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, we will bring together a poet, and mathematician, and a composer to think together about how they are shaped by the languages they use, and about how they are shaped by their own encounters with work created in languages not their own.

For more information, visit www.scienceandliterature.org 

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Jewish Arts Festival theme this year is “Comics and Comedians.”

On Saturday, November 14, at 6:15 pm, doors open to an evening full of entertainment, starting with JT Waldman, graphic novelist and illustrator, who will speak about his groundbreaking book, Megillat Esther; a Havdallah celebration, followed by a side-splitting comedy show by Michele Balan, who was a finalist on “Last Comic Standing.” Appetizers provided by Mazza Restaurant. Cost: $25/person in advance and $35/person at the door.

On Sunday, November 15, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm the festivities continue for the Festival Day. There will be incredible musical performances by David’s Scattered Seeds, Desert Wind, Klezbros, L’Chaim Russian Jewish Choir and The Tower Trio; hands-on adult workshops by JT Waldman and Pat Bagley, and an Israeli Martial Arts demonstration by Krav Maga; original themed dances performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company; caricaturists; storytelling by Ripple Tales; kid’s art yards for all ages; Jewish book fair provided by King’s English Bookshop; comic books by Night Flight Comics and delicious Jewish delicacies to make your mouth water.

Contact Michelle Oelsner @ 801-581-0098 ext: 119 for more information.

The Jewish Arts Festival theme this year is “Comics and Comedians.”

On Saturday, November 14, at 6:15 pm, doors open to an evening full of entertainment, starting with JT Waldman, graphic novelist and illustrator, who will speak about his groundbreaking book, Megillat Esther; a Havdallah celebration, followed by a side-splitting comedy show by Michele Balan, who was a finalist on “Last Comic Standing.” Appetizers provided by Mazza Restaurant. Cost: $25/person in advance and $35/person at the door.

On Sunday, November 15, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm the festivities continue for the Festival Day. There will be incredible musical performances by David’s Scattered Seeds, Desert Wind, Klezbros, L’Chaim Russian Jewish Choir and The Tower Trio; hands-on adult workshops by JT Waldman and Pat Bagley, and an Israeli Martial Arts demonstration by Krav Maga; original themed dances performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company; caricaturists; storytelling by Ripple Tales; kid’s art yards for all ages; Jewish book fair provided by King’s English Bookshop; comic books by Night Flight Comics and delicious Jewish delicacies to make your mouth water.

Contact Michelle Oelsner @ 801-581-0098 ext: 119 for more information.

Antonya Nelson teaches at the University of Houston, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing. Her first story collection, The Expendables, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990. She is the author of five other short story collections, including Nothing Right (2009), and three novels: Talking in Bed (winner of the Heartland Prize), Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the Rea Award for Short Fiction.

Kathryn Cowles’s first book of poems, Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name, won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was published in 2008. A group of her poems and poem-photograph collages was selected by Cole Swensen to receive the Larry Levis Associated Writers and Writing Programs Poetry Prize for 2009. She has recent and forthcoming work in Interim, Versal, Colorado Review, Octopus, and Pleiades, among others. Cowles earned a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where she taught in the departments of English, Writing, and Gender Studies. She served as co-editor of poetry for Quarterly West and co-chair of The Working Dog reading series. Cowles is now an Assistant Professor of Poetry and Literature at Ohio Northern University.

In partnership with the University of Utah English Department and Creative Writing Program, the Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the 2009-2010 season of the Guest Writers Series.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

In this revealing talk about producing a book 40 years in the making, come see how President A. Ray Olpin crafted a massive recruitment campaign that transformed the University of Utah from a provincial college to a first-rate national university.

If you’re a fan of the ’50s, fond of the University of Utah, or simply curious how this university came to play such a vital role in expanding Western minds, you won’t want to miss this provocative telling of tales through photos depicting the mid-century optimism of the A. Ray Olpin era.

This dramatic narrative provides a candid and compelling account of Olpin’s tenure as president, placing him as a central figure in American higher education and convincing us that his legacy belies mere attachment to one of the University’s best-known gathering places. A. Ray Olpin is more than a mere namesake of the University of Utah’s Student Union Building. He’ll mean much more than a Union to readers who have longed for this important chapter in the University of Utah’s history to be published at last.

Featuring a foreword by University of Utah president emeritus David P. Gardner, and a collection of moving archival photos, Years of Promise is a portrait of uncommon leadership and foresight, a work of historical recovery that chronicles how these traits shaped an unlikely university into the internationally respected institution it is today.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Buy Local First Week!

We are celebrating the week with our Go, Dog. Go! storytime on Saturday, November 28th at 11 a.m. and a reading and slide show by Anne Palmer Peterson on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 p.m., and, of course, with our Annual King's English Bookshop Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

Get 10% off all regularly priced merchandise and an additional 10% off all regularly priced merchandise during our holiday party.

Resolved: I will begin 2010 with a visit to the King’s English New Year’s Day Sale to stock up on books.

25% off everything (except special orders)! Enjoy a bit of the bubbly, too, 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.

University of Utah writing professor Maximilian Werner reads from Black River Dreams, a collection of literary fly fishing essays that celebrates the fly fishing life, the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, ghosts and dreams.

Black River Dreams won the 2008 Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Award for Nonfiction in the Book category.

Jon Turk, whose life is a tapestry of writing, public speaking, expeditions, and living, presents The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, A Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness, which will be released by St Martin's Press on January 19, 2010.

Presentation will be at the Gore Auditorium on the Westminster College campus.

For more information, visit Jon Turk's website.

The Guest Writers Series, sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the University of Utah English Department / Creative Writing Program, resumes on Thursday, February 11, 2010 with poet Jessica Garratt and poet Peter Gizzi (rescheduled from October 29) at the Finch Lane Gallery /Art Barn (1340 East 100 South in Reservoir Park). The reading begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow to meet the writers.

Two-day conference with speaking guests, readings and signings at Orson Spencer Hall and the adjacent University Union Building at the University of Utah Campus. Conference speakers include: Scientist and philosopher, keynote speaker Tyler Volk; labor activist, union organizer, attorney and journalist Steve Early; speaker and freelance journalist, Alison Weir; Rand Wilson, a labor movement luminary; and SLC author Barbara Richardson who will conduct a book reading and signing about the novel Guest House.
The Healthy Planet Mobilization Committee initiated this conference in cooperation with the Campus Committee for Peace and Justice at the Univ. of Utah and with the support of Utah Jobs with Justice and the Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice. Other campus sponsors include the Univ. of Utah’s Office of Sustainability, the Peace and Conflict Resolution Program and the Economics Department.
The conference is free and open to the public.
Please visit this website for the complete conference schedule and maps to the event

Two-day conference with speaking guests, readings and signings at Orson Spencer Hall and the adjacent University Union Building at the University of Utah Campus. Conference speakers include: Scientist and philosopher, keynote speaker Tyler Volk; labor activist, union organizer, attorney and journalist Steve Early; speaker and freelance journalist, Alison Weir; Rand Wilson, a labor movement luminary; and SLC author Barbara Richardson who will conduct a book reading and signing about the novel Guest House.
The Healthy Planet Mobilization Committee initiated this conference in cooperation with the Campus Committee for Peace and Justice at the Univ. of Utah and with the support of Utah Jobs with Justice and the Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice. Other campus sponsors include the Univ. of Utah’s Office of Sustainability, the Peace and Conflict Resolution Program and the Economics Department.
The conference is free and open to the public.
Please visit this website for the complete conference schedule and maps to the event

Transcending the Mind with Genpo Roshi of the Zen Center

Thursday, March 4th

Time:  6.30 - 9 pm (lecture starts at
7.00)

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION!

U of U Marriott Library

Gould Auditorium (level one)

295 South and 1500 East

Please see the map  

This is a free event

All mental health
professionals are eligible to receive ONE COMPLIMENTARY CEU

For more information about this event
visit our website Jung Society of Utah

Patrick Madden will read from his recently published collection of essays, Quotidiana. In Quotidiana, Madden illuminates  common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated.

Patrick Madden is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young
University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit his web site www.quotidiana.org.

Editor Beth Conover and local contributors Stephen Trimble and John Daley present How the West Was Warmed: Responding to Climate Change in the Rockies, an entertaining and enlightening collection of essays that develops a portrait of the wide range of responses to climate change in the Rocky Mountain West.

UPDATE: Local contributor Chip Ward is unable to attend.

In partnership with the University of Utah English Department and Creative Writing Program, the Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the 2009-2010 season of the Guest Writers Series (GWS).

PERCIVAL EVERETT, author of sixteen novels, three collections of short fiction, and two volumes of poetry. Among his novels are The Water Cure (2008), Wounded, Glyph, Erasure, American Desert, For Her Dark Skin, Zulus, Cutting Lisa, Watershed, and God's Country.

KAREN VOLKMAN‘s first book, Crash’s Law (1996), was a National Poetry Series selection and her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She recently authored her third book, Nomina.

The readings begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Meet two talented western authors in one evening: Mark Spragg and Laura Bell.

Spragg’s new work Bone Fire continues the truthful and compassionate story of the characters who peopled Spragg's bestselling novel An Unfinished Life which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. Laura Bell’s debut memoir, Claiming Ground, is a stirring portrayal of a woman making her own stamp as a sheepherder in remote Wyoming.

The event will feature a reading by both authors, followed by Q & A and booksigning.

Co-sponsored
by the Stegner Center.

Venue updated Feb. 25, 2010

Marilyn Bohn will be here to sign copies of her book, Go, Organize: Conquer Clutter in 3 Simple Steps.

University of Utah English Professors François Camoin and Lance Olsen join us for a literary evening.
François André Camoin (born 1939 Nice, France) is an American short story writer.
Lance Olsen is author of ten novels, one new-media text, four critical studies, four short-story collections, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction.

UPDATE: As of Thursday, March 11, this event has been cancelled. We will try and reschedule at a later date.