From A to Z: Make Your Own Altered Books

Make a zine or alter a children's board book into a work of art. This free-form workshop is designed for those who want to spend the afternoon, or just a few minutes exploring the creation of zines or altered books. Basic instructions will be given at the start of the program which will run from 1:00-5:00 p.m. or while supplies last. Books about how to make zines and altered books will also be available in the area for check-out.

Program Information:
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1-5 p.m.
Location: Level 2 Canteena

James Aton's Bio

James M. Aton has been Professor of English at Southern Utah University since 1980. He is the author of John Wesley Powell (Boise 1994), (with Robert S. McPherson) River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan (Logan 2000), and (with photographer Dan Miller) The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green (Logan 2009). River Flowing won the Hundley Award for best book from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. He also produced the DVD, Voices of Desolation Canyon (2009), with Jennifer Little. Aton was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar of American Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia (1989-90) and at Sichuan University in China (1997-98).

Program Information:
Desolation Canyon and the Tavaputs Plateau:
Making a Living for 13,000 Years
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Jimmy's Bio

Born in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and was later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one that he began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and found his passion for poetry.

He is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the National Poetry Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for his memoir A Place To Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca had two books released March 2004: The Importance of a Piece of Paper (Grove/Atlantic) and Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (New Directions). Other books include: A Place to Stand, Healing Earthquakes, C-Train & Thirteen Mexicans, Black Mesa Poems, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, and Immigrants in Our Own Land. Movie scripts and productions include Bound by Honor (Blood In, Blood Out), Hollywood Pictures/Disney, and The Lone Wolf — The Story of Pancho Gonzalez, HBO Productions.

Baca's first novel (2009), A Glass of Water, is a gripping tale of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge, which offers us a glimpse into the tragedies unfurling at this very moment at and around our country's borders. The promise of a new beginning brings Casimiro and Nopal together when they are young immigrants, having made the nearly deadly journey across the border from Mexico. A Glass of Water is a searing, heartfelt tribute to brotherhood, and an arresting portrait of the twisted paths people take to claim their piece of the ever-elusive American dream.

Program Information:
Jimmy Santiago Baca in conversation with Paisley Rekdal
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Pamela's Bio

Pam Balluck graduated with a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Utah in 2008, where for two years she served as a fiction editor for Quarterly West. Her creative writing has appeared in the Western Humanities Review as fiction winner of the Competition for Utah Writers, in The Southeast Review as finalist in The World's Best Short Short Story Contest, in Quarter After Eight as semi-finalist in their genre-blurring Prose Contest, in Square Lake, The Jabberwock Review, Barrow Street, and in an Uptown fiction chapbook (illustrated by Josh Crow). She has recently been granted a Full Fellowship Award in fiction for a four-week Vermont Studio Center Residency in summer 2010.

Program Information:
Publishing First Fiction: A Conversation with Pam Balluck, Dylan Landis, and Lynn Kilpatrick
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Allison's Bio

Allison Hoover Bartlett has written on a variety of topics, including travel, art, science and education, for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon.com, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, and other publications. Her original article on John Gilkey was included in the Best American Crime Reporting 2007. Bartlett is a founding member of the writing group North 24th and works at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, a collective studio. Bartlett has a B.A. in English literature from UC Santa Barbara and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. Bartlett is the author of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession.

Program Information:
Allison Bartlett in conversation with Ken Sanders
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Special Collections

Book Arts Program

Book Arts Program, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, encourages appreciation for the history and art of the book by providing bookmaking workshops, classes, lectures, exhibitions, and community outreach. For more information, visit www.bookartsprogram.org.

Program Information:
Book Arts for Children
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Location: Children’s Craft Room

Program Information:
Bookmaking, Papermaking, and So Much More!
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Location: Level 1 Fireplace

Brian's Bio

Brian Q. Cannon is associate professor of history and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. He specializes in the American West, Utah history, twentieth-century America and rural history. He is the author and editor of books and articles in western, Utah and Mormon history including Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West (2009) and Utah in the Twentieth Century (2009; coedited with Jessie L. Embry).

Program Information:
Beehive Archive: A Conversation about Utah History
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Chris Crowe's Bio

Chris Crowe is the author of Mississippi Trial, 1955, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case and other books of fiction and nonfiction for teenagers. In addition to these books, he has also written academic and professional books, magazine and journal articles, poetry, essays, and short stories. He's the Nan Osmond Grass Professor of English at Brigham Young University where he teaches adolescent literature, creative writing, and English education courses. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are the parents of four children and the proud grandparents of Ella Ruth Hughes and Kasia Skye Crowe. His most recent book, Up Close: Thurgood Marshall was published by Viking in 2008.

Program Information:
Michael Spooner in conversation with Chris Crowe
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Conference Room

Cuentame Cuentos: a Bilingual Storytime

Hosted by the Utah State Library Division

Kristen Stehel, Librarian, Utah State Library Division
Kristen Stehel was raised in Toledo Ohio and has lived in Salt Lake City since 2001. She is a Library Technician at the State Library where she works with interlibrary loans and circulation tasks. In addition, she is an Associate Librarian in the Children's Department along with a Volunteer for the Children's Department at the Main Library downtown. Currently, her main objective is planning the proposed addition of bilingual story time at the Murray Library. Juan Tomas Lee, Librarian, Utah State Library Division
Juan Tomas Lee grew up in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico and now calls the mountains and deserts of Utah his home. As a consultant with the State Library, he assists directors, trustees, and staff in rural and small libraries in Utah develop and enhance services for their communities. Occasionally, he gets an opportunity to read his favorite stories to families and encourage them to enjoy other languages.

Program Information:
Cuentame Cuentos: A Bilingual Storytime
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 12-1 p.m.
Location: Children’s Story Room

Michael's Bio

Michael Cunningham received his B.A. in English Literature from Stanford University and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His novel A Home at the End of the World was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim. Flesh and Blood, another novel, followed in 1995. He received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, The Hours. He has written one nonfiction book, Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown. He is also the author of Specimen Days (June 2005). A film version of The Hours was directed by Stephen Daldry and featured Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, and Meryl Streep. Cunningham's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications. His story White Angel was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and another story, Mister Brother, appeared in the 2000 O. Henry Collection.

Program Information:
Michael Cunningham with Doug Fabrizio
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct.24, 12-1 p.m.
Location: Auditorium and Conference Rooms A/B/C

Program Information:
“The Hours” Film Screening
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 6-9 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Jack's Bio

Jack Davidson is a veteran Selected Shorts performer. His regional theater credits include Death of a Salesman at the Chautauqua Theater, Close Ties at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and A Delicate Balance at the Merrimack Repertory Company, for which he garnered an Elliot Norton Award nomination and received the IRNE Award for Best Actor in a Play. Recently he appeared in the film Morning Glory with Harrison Ford. Other films include The Autumn Heart, and Gardening Tips for Housewives. Davidson has appeared in both Law & Order and Law & Order CI. Some years ago, he played C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands at the Pioneer Theater in Salt Lake City

Reverend Davis' Bio

The Rev. France A. Davis was born and reared on a Gough, Georgia farm to John H. and Julia Davis. After high school, he attended Tuskegee Institute and later became an Air force jet mechanic. He later earned degrees in Afro-American Studies from Merritt College; Arts and Humanities from Laney College; Rhetoric from University of California at Berkeley; Religion and Philosophy from Westminster College; Master of Mass Communication from the University of Utah; and Master of Ministry from Northwest Nazarene College.

He came to Salt Lake City in 1972 as a teaching fellow and graduate student. He was appointed an instructor in communication and ethnic studies courses, earning a distinguished teacher award, and continues to teach in the University of Utah's Honors and Ethnic Studies Program as an Adjunct Associate Professor.

He was licensed in 1966 and ordained in 1971 for ministry. Presently, Rev. Davis is, and has been since 1974, the full time pastor of the historic Calvary Missionary Baptist Church of Salt Lake City, Utah.

He lectures widely on cultural and religious topics. He also serves on community and national boards including the Salt Lake Housing Authority, Career Service Council, and the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau. He has received numerous awards including an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from the University of Utah in 1993, Salt Lake Community College in 1997, Dixie State College in 2002; the T. K. McCarthey Silver Hope Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2006; an official citation from the Utah House of Representatives in recognition of outstanding service to his community, state and nation in 2006 and was appointed as a member to the Salt Lake Community College Board of Trustees by Governor Huntsman in 2007. Rev. Davis just recently published (October, 2006) his second book, France Davis: An American Story Told.

Program Information:
Carlotta Walls LaNier in conversation with Reverend France A. Davis, Pastor
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Terrell's Bio

That Went Well: Adventures in Caring for My Sister, describes the roller coaster ride Terrell Dougan and her family had trying to make her sister Irene's life work. A birth injury in 1946 left Irene developmentally disabled. With no programs existing for special needs children at the time, Dougan's father began the advocacy movement for these children in Utah. Dougan's book describes how her family learned behavior modification for special needs children, and then applied it to legislators. It worked. The kindness of strangers from all walks of life plays a role in her story as well, which led her to name her talk: Flying Chickens and the Kindness of Strangers. Discussions illustrate how much special people help the rest of us in ways we don't fathom and demonstrate the power of ordinary citizens who effect sweeping social change in a short period of time.

For more information on Dougan's book, visit her web site: www.thatwentwellthebook.com

Program Information:
The Roots of Humor: Terrell Dougan and Robert Kirby
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Conference Rooms A/B

Doug's Bio

Doug Fabrizio has been reporting for KUER since 1987, and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, he became host and executive producer of RadioWest, a one hour conversation/call-in show. He is also the host of the weekly television broadcast Utah Now on KUED Channel 7, and has served as a guest host of the NPR's, "Talk of the Nation." He has won numerous awards for his reporting as well as for RadioWest from such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association and the Public Radio News Directors Association. Doug obtained his Broadcast Journalism degree from the University of Utah, with Minors in Theater and Spanish.

Program Information:
Michael Cunningham with Doug Fabrizio
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct.24, 12-1 p.m.
Location: Auditorium and Conference Rooms A/B/C

Susan's Bio

Susan Gunter is Professor of English at Westminster College. Editor of two editions of writer Henry James's letters (one to powerful women and one to his younger lovers), she studied creative writing with James Dickey, Jane Shore, Mike Dorrell, and Wayne Johnson. Her most recent book, Alice in Jamesland, has been well reviewed. It is a biography of William James's wife and Henry James's sister-in-law and provides important, intimate insights into America's first intellectual clan.

Program Information:
Susan Gunter in conversation with Jean Cheney
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Conference Room

Lela's Bio

Lela Graybill is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Utah, specializing in the art and visual culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University. Her current book project, The Visual Culture of Violence in an Age of Reform, 1789 - 1832, examines how shifting social attitudes, political practices, and technological developments transformed the staging of violence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her research and teaching examines historical relationships between the fine arts, popular culture, media technologies, visuality and display.

Program Information:
Jed Perl in conversation with Lela Graybill
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Rooms A/B

Shannon's Bio

Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of five award-winning young adult novels, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, and two books for adults, Austenland and The Actor and the Housewife. She co-wrote a graphic novel, Rapunzel's Revenge, with husband Dean Hale. They live with their two small children near Salt Lake City, Utah.

Program Information:
Shannon Hale in conversation with Sara Zarr
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Susan's Bio

Susan Elizabeth Howe is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, where she directs the reading series. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver and an M.A. from the University of Utah. She is a reviewer and contributing editor for Tar River Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and other journals. Her first collection, Stone Spirits, won the publication award of the Redd Center for Western Studies. She co-edited the collection Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, which has just been released in a second edition. She and her husband Cless Young live in Ephraim; they have taught and traveled in Europe several times in the past few years.

Program Information:
Jason Whitmarsh in conversation with Susan Howe
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Special Collections

Lynn's Bio

Lynn Kilpatrick’s first collection of short stories, In The House, will be published by FC2 in 2010. Her fiction is forthcoming in Alfred Hitchock Mystery Magazine, and has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Salt Hill, Hawaii Review and Denver Quarterly. Her essays have been published in Ninth Letter, Creative Nonfiction, and Brevity. She earned her PhD in Fiction from the University of Utah and an MA in Poetry from Western Washington University. She teaches at Salt Lake Community College.

Program Information:
Publishing First Fiction: A Conversation with Pam Balluck, Dylan Landis, and Lynn Kilpatrick
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Robert's Bio

Salt Lake Tribune humor columnist Robert Kirby was raised in a military family. After serving an LDS mission to South America, Kirby became a police officer. His law enforcement career was cut short in 1989 by the idiotic notion of becoming a writer.

Robert has written for the Tribune since 1994. His column appears every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. He is the author of six humor books, two novels, and a history book on Utah's murdered police officers.

A confused grandfather, Kirby has three daughters and one wife. He lives with his long-suffering family in Herriman, where neighbors no longer speak to him on the record.

Program Information:
The Roots of Humor: Terrell Dougan and Robert Kirby
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Conference Rooms A/B

Dylan's Bio

Dylan Landis is the author of the novel-in-stories NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T LIVE LIKE THIS, forthcoming September 2009 from Persea Books. Her short fiction has won numerous awards, including the 2006 Writers@Work Fellowship and the Poets & Writers California Voices Award, and has appeared in Bomb, Tin House, Best American Nonrequired Reading and elsewhere. She has done readings in New York, L.A. and elsewhere, including a panel on publishing fiction with Tin House editor Rob Spillman and a 2006 reading with Steve Almond at the Salt Lake City Public Library, and has taught short story workshops for the UCLA Extension Writers Program.

Program Information:
Publishing First Fiction: A Conversation with Pam Balluck, Dylan Landis, and Lynn Kilpatrick
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Carlotta's Bio

On September 25, 1957, 14-year-old Carlotta Walls stepped into history and one of the most gripping watershed moments of the Civil Rights Movement when she and eight other students integrated Little Rock Central High School. In her powerful and compelling new memoir, A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the "Little Rock Nine," shares her fascinating personal story for the first time, offering an inside look at the most famous school integration in American history, and reveals how this experience shaped the rest of her life. LaNier is a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor and sits on the board of the University of Northern Colorado.

Program Information:
Carlotta Walls LaNier in conversation with Reverend France A. Davis, Pastor
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Guy's Bio

Guy Lebeda is a writer, poet and journalist who has published essays and articles about art, the environment and outdoor topics. His work has appeared in publications such as Tallahassee Magazine, Capital City, The Running Journal, the University of Wyoming's Alumnews Magazine, the Laramie Daily Boomerang, Valley Horse Journal, Crossroads Anthology, Salt Lake City Magazine, In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (Norton), and Land That We Love.

Lebeda also writes humor. He is the author of a comedy radio script that was performed on National Public Radio by Garrison Keillor on Prairie Home Companion.

Lebeda lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is the Literature Program Manager for the Utah Arts Council. Previously, he was the Literature Program Director for the Wyoming Arts Council.

Program Information:
Mark Richardson in conversation with Guy Lebeda
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room A/B

Nancy's Bio

Nancy Livingston was formerly on the McKay School of Education faculty at Brigham Young University, and is now an education specialist in Title I at the Utah State Office of Education. Dr. Livigston also teaches children's literature classes for several universities, as well as serving on several community boards related to literacy.

Program Information:
From Literary to Literacy:
Children’s Books Too Good to Miss
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Children’s Story Room

Joel's Bio

Joel Long is an American poet and English teacher. He is the author of the award-winning book Winged Insects. Joel is currently an English teacher at Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City, Utah. He regularly plays semi-professional ultimate at Sugar House Park. At Rowland Hall, Joel Long teaches 9th grade English, AP art history, and creative writing. He is the winner of the 2009 Mayor's Artist Award in Literary Arts.

Program Information:
Gary Soto in conversation with Joel Long
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location: Auditorium

Monogatari Bilingual Storytime

Monogatari: Bilingual Storytime in Japanese and English. Come and hear the stories that will take you away to the land of Japan. Japanese stories will be presented with one in English and Japanese. Stories will be read by LuAnne Nakamura, a children's librarian at the Chapman Branch Library, who shares her Japanese heritage and culture through crafts, foods and children's books. Come and hear stories and make crafts to take home.

Program Information:
Monogatori: Bilingual Storytime in Japanese and English
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Children’s Story Room

Linda's Bio

Linda King Newell is a prize-winning biographer and historian. Among her works, she is the author or co-author of three Utah county histories (Paiute, Millard and Garfield) in the state's Centennial Series and co-author of Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith..

Program Information:
Beehive Archive: A Conversation about Utah History
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

L. Jackson Newell's Bio

L. Jackson Newell is professor emeritus at the University of Utah and president emeritus of Deep Springs College, California. He currently teaches in UHC's Venture Course in the Humanities. Jack co-edited Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought with his wife Linda King Newell from 1982-87.

Program Information:
Beehive Archive: A Conversation about Utah History
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Robert's Bio

Robert Newman is a Professor of English, Dean of the College of Humanities and Associate Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies. He previously held appointments at the College of William and Mary, Texas A&M University, and University of South Carolina where he was Chair of the English Department. Professor Newman received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in 1982. He has published six books, two of which have been nominated for major national awards, as well as numerous articles on twentieth century literature and culture and has been the recipient of several prestigious scholarly and teaching awards. He currently edits the "Cultural Frames, Framing Culture" series for the University of Virginia Press.

Program Information:
'The Hours' Film Screening
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 6-9 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Utah Watercolor Society Exhibit

October Utah Watercolor Society Exhibit inspired by Utah Humanities Book Festival

When:
October 15 – November 7, 2009
Artists' reception and awards ceremony
Thursday, Oct. 15, 6-9 p.m.
Open for Gallery Stroll, Friday, Oct. 16, 6-9 p.m.

Where:
Patrick Moore Gallery
2233 South 700 East, Salt Lake City

The Utah Watercolor Society challenged its members to get 'Inspired by a Book' for the annual fall member exhibition. The results demonstrate the diversity of the artists who make up the society and the diversity of their reading interests. From Gordon B. Hinkley to J. K. Rowling, and from 'The Secret Garden' to 'Home Improvement 1-2-3,' an interesting variety of books inspired the 35 artists whose work was accepted into the juried exhibition.

The theme itself was inspired by the annual Book Festival sponsored by the Utah Humanities Council, which coincides with the exhibit.

Paintings for the exhibition were selected from more than 100 entries by nationally renowned watercolorist Joyce Washor. The exhibit will fill the main gallery at Patrick Moore Gallery and spill into the hallway and adjoining room. Sixty paintings will be exhibited Oct. 15 – Nov. 7, with receptions on Oct. 15, 6-9 for award presentations, and on Oct. 16, 6-9, during Gallery Stroll.

Allan's Bio

Allan Kent Powell received his higher education at the College of Eastern Utah and the University of Utah where he earned his Bachelor, Master's and Ph.D. degrees in History. He began working at the Utah State Historical Society in 1969 and is currently the Public History Coordinator and Managing Editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly. He is also an Associate Instructor of History at Westminster College and has participated with the Utah Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and other programs for many years.

Powell's books include: The Next Time We Strike: Labor in Utah's Coal Fields 1900-1933 which recounts the story of Utah's coal miners and their struggle for unionization; Splinters of a Nation: German Prisoners of War in Utah which looks at the experience of German prisoners of war sent to Utah during both World War I and World War II; Utah Remembers World War II, a volume which looks at the World War II experience of soldiers, workers, women, and children in Utah; and The Utah Guide, a travel guide to the state published by Fulcrum Press.

Powell's major editing projects include The Utah History Encyclopedia (University of Utah Press), and his assignment as the General Editor of the Utah Centennial County History Series, completed in 1999. He has received awards from the Mormon History Association and the American Association for State and Local History for both projects.

Program Information:
Beehive Archive: A Conversation about Utah History
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Jed's Bio

Jed Perl was born in New York City in 1951. He received a BA from Columbia College and studied painting at the Skowhegan School in Maine.

He was a contributing editor to Vogue in the 1980s and has been the art critic for The New Republic since 1994. Among his books are Paris Without End: On French Art Since World War I and Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis. He lives in New York City with his wife, the painter Deborah Rosenthal.

Program Information:
Jed Perl in conversation with Lela Graybill
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Rooms A/B

Reading Tree

Reading Tree is a nonprofit organization that collects new and gently used books from families who no longer need them, and delivers them to children, schools, libraries and support organizations that desperately want them. Their primary model is centered on building classroom lending libraries in Title I schools, where a majority of the students are failing to make adequate progress in reading. We are seeking picture and chapter books appropriate for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. Using the books donated at the Book Festival, the Humanities Council will co-sponsor classroom libraries at a local elementary school.

Information:
Bins are available on Saturday and Sunday in the Urban Room to drop off children’s books

Paisley's Bio

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon, October 2000 and Vintage Books, April 2002), and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press, October 2000), Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press, November 2002) and The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (University of Pittsburgh Press/Pitt Poetry Series, April 2007). Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, the University of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Nerve, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and American Poetry Review, among others.

Program Information:
Jimmy Santiago Baca in conversation with
Paisley Rekdal
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Mark's Bio

Mark Richardson, editor of the Wheels section of the Toronto Star newspaper, has worked in journalism since 1985. After several years working as a reporter throughout Canada, he embarked on a trip to Africa that resulted in his involvement with the award-winning 1997 documentary, Rwanda: Chronicles of a Genocide Foretold. Following his time in Africa, Richardson worked for two years in the UK as a producer for WTN, an international TV wire news agency. But his first love was writing and newspaper journalism, and in 1998 he returned to Canada to work as an editor at the Toronto Star. His award-winning weekly column in the paper's Wheels section began in 1998, and for the last five years he's been the editor of the section.

Program Information:
Mark Richardson in conversation with Guy Lebeda
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Conference Room A/B

For more information, please see his website, www.zenandnow.org

Ken's Bio

Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop (opened with his daughter Melissa in 1997) located just off Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City. Proprietor Sanders has been buying, selling and collecting quaint and curious volumes of lore since his childhood. He formerly co-owned and ran the legendary Cosmic Aeroplane Bookstore in the 1970s and founded Dream Garden Press in 1980, which publishes the R. Crumb illustrated edition of the Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.

The 4,000 square foot bookshop specializes in works on Utah and the Mormons, the exploration and discovery of the American West with a special emphasis on The Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, Yellowstone and other national parks and wilderness areas, along with antique maps, vintage photography, postcards and all kinds of ephemera. Ken Sanders Rare Books also specializes in Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, B. Traven and authors of the literary west. They have large holdings of modern first editions, including autographed copies, along with rare and collectible books in many fields: art, photography, children's and illustrated books, sets and leather bound books.

Ken Sanders Rare Books regularly features art & photography exhibitions for the monthly gallery stroll, hosts book publication parties for authors, and has a regular series of poetry readings. A diverse and varied clientele are known to inhabit the bookshop premises. You never know whom you might encounter. Previous exhibitions have included Leia Bell, Scott Carrier, Trent Harris, Diane Orr, Anna Campbell Bliss, Carel Peter Brest Van Kempen, Trent Call, Sri Whipple, The Salt Lake Sixties, Mark & Caralyn Buehner, Mark Knudsen, Edward Bateman, R.P. Bissland, Everett Ruess, Charles Savage, and dozens of others.

Sanders has been a featured appraiser on the popular PBS series The Antiques Road Show for the past two seasons.

Program Information:
Edward Abbey, Earth First!
The Monkey Wrench Gang and Me
Date/Time: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7-9 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Program Information:
Rare Books Roadshow
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Special Collections

Program Information:
Allison Bartlett in conversation with Ken Sanders
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Special Collections

Selected Shorts

Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen. Whether we present stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author or a special collaboration with a museum or publication, each Selected Shorts event is a unique night of literature in performance. Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer.

Program Information:
Date/Time: Sunday, Oct. 25, 2-4 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Isaiah's Bio

Isaiah Sheffer is a founder and the artistic director of Symphony Space, as well as host and director of Selected Shorts live at Symphony Space, on tour, and on public radio nationwide. This year, among other projects, he has been busy staging and writing songs and satire for Symphony Space's cabaret, The Thalia Follies.

Program Information:
“Selected Shorts”
Date/Time: Sunday, Oct. 25, 2-4 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

The SLCC Community Writing Center

The SLCC Community Writing Center (Salt Lake Community College) supports, motivates and educates people of all abilities and educational backgrounds who want to use writing for practical needs, civic engagement and personal expression. www.slcc.edu/cwc

Program Information:
Into Ink: A Poetry Reading by Local Teens
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: The SLCC Community Writing Center

Gary's Bio

Gary Soto is an award winning author and poet who has written numerous poems, plays, picture books, short stories, and novels for young readers and adults. His experience as a Mexican American growing up in Fresno, California inspires much of his writing. Some of his titles include Baseball in April and Other Stories, Living Up the Street, A Fire in My Hands, and Buried Onions.

Program Information:
Gary Soto in conversation with Joel Long
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location: Auditorium

Donna's Bio

Donna Kemp Spangler is the public information officer for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). She is the co-author of two books: Horned Snakes and Axle Grease, and Treasurers of the Tavaputs. She is a former award-winning journalist of 20 years for several newspapers and publications, including "Exchange Monitor" in Washington, D.C., the "Deseret News" in Salt Lake City, Utah and the "Walla Walla Union Bulletin" in Washington State. She received a communications degree at the University of Portland in 1986.

Program Information:
Desolation Canyon and the Tavaputs Plateau:
Making a Living for 13,000 Years
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Jerry's Bio

Jerry D. Spangler is the executive director of the non-profit Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance (CPAA), founded in 2005, to protect and preserve human landscapes of national significance by working cooperatively with governmental entities, developers, private land owners and conservationists.

He, along with his wife, Donna Kemp Spangler, are the authors of two books: Horned Snakes and Axle Grease, a roadside guide to the history and archaeology of 9 Mile Canyon (2003), and Treasures of the Tavaputs, the archaeology of Desolation Canyon, Nine Mile Canyon and Range Creek (2007).

Spangler is a former award-winning journalist, having worked as a reporter for the Deseret News for 25 years prior to founding CPAA. He received a degree in communications and master's in anthropology at Brigham Young University.

Program Information:
Desolation Canyon and the Tavaputs Plateau:
Making a Living for 13,000 Years
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Conference Room C

Michael's Bio

Michael Spooner is the author of several books for children and young adult readers, as well as scholarly chapters and articles. His award-winning novels Last Child and Daniel's Walk are regularly taught in Utah classrooms. His latest novel, Entrapment (Simon & Schuster 2009), is a comic look at high school love, friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness.

Visit him at www.mspooner.net. Michael directs the Utah State University Press in Logan.

Program Information:
Michael Spooner in conversation with Chris Crowe
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Conference Room

Edwin's Bio

Born in 1965 in New York of Puerto Rican parents, Edwin Torres started creating (often bilingual) text and performance work in 1988. In 1990, he discovered poetry at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and The St. Marks Poetry Project. Torres has since collaborated with a wide range of artists, creating performances that mingle poetry with vocal/physical improvisation, visual theater, music and sound. His work has been noted by MTV's Spoken Word 4 Unplugged, Rolling Stone Magazine, High Times, and thanks to his goatee, he's made the cover of New York Magazine's "The Beats Are Back" issue. Torres has performed at the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is recipient of poetry fellowships from The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and The Poetry Fund; and his CD Holy Kid was part of The Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition.

Program Information:
Poet Edwin Torres
Date/Time: Friday, Oct. 23, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Vive Gore Concert Hall, Emma E. Jones Conservatory, Westminster College

Program Information:
Performance Workshop with Teens
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Conference Room

Lillo's Bio

Lillo Way is a regular reader with Selected Shorts, and has performed with the series in Washington, DC; Austin, Dallas and Seattle. Her other spoken word performances and narrations include Alan Bennett's Bed Among the Lentils, and, with orchestra, Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat," Beetheven's "The Ruins of Athens," "Egmont" (with soprano Judith Blegen), and Hindemith's "Herodiade". She has appeared in classical and contemporary plays on New York and regional stages.

Tony's Bio

Tony Weller is a third generation bookseller and is President and principle owner of Sam Weller's Books, Inc., also known as Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, which was founded in 1929. The bookstore occupies some 40,000 square feet on four floors of the historic David Keith Building in downtown Salt Lake City. It sells new, used and rare books of all topics and employs 40 booksellers. Tony has been in the book trade since 1978 and currently runs the bookstore's Rare Book Department. His duties include the buying, researching and selling of used and rare books. He performs document and book appraisals for clients as well as for the University of Utah, principally, the Marriott Library and for the Giovali Library at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA).

Program Information:
Rare Books Roadshow
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Special Collections

Jason's Bio

Jason Whitmarsh earned his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Washington, where he was awarded a Klepser Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Prize. His poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Yale Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Fence. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children. Tomorrow's Living Room is his first book.

Program Information:
Jason Whitmarsh in conversation with Susan Howe
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Level 4 Special Collections

Sara's Bio

Sara Zarr is the acclaimed author of three novels for young adults: Story of a Girl (a 2007 National Book Award Finalist), Sweethearts (2008), and the recently-published Once Was Lost, which was partially inspired by the Elizabeth Smart case. She has been a contributor of short fiction and creative nonfiction to several anthologies. Sara lives in Salt Lake City and online at www.sarazarr.com.

Program Information:
Shannon Hale in conversation with Sara Zarr
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium

Whizgiggle Puppet

The City Library's own Whizgiggle Puppets present a collection of amusing animal antics including side splitters such as The Frog Prince, Continued; Pssst!; and everyone's favorite colossal canine, Dogzilla. Each story showcases a zoologically zany combination of hand and shadow puppetry. Bring the whole family for a rip-roaring, furry fun time and enjoy this encore performance from the March 2009 Puppetry Festival.

Program Information:
Whizgiggle Puppets: Crazy Creature Comedies
Date/Time: Saturday, Oct. 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Location: Children’s Story Room