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.

Ree Drummond will be here in Salt Lake city on the Griswold-family-like book tour for her new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.

Ree Drummond began blogging in 2006 and has built www.ThePioneerWoman.com into an award-winning website, where she shares recipes, showcases her photography, and documents her hilarious transition from city life to ranch wife.

Ree lives on a working cattle ranch near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, with her husband, Ladd, otherwise known as the Marlboro Man, and their four ranch hands. 

UPDATE: November 3, 2009
Seating is limited and available on a first come basis. Doors to the 15th Street Gallery, south of the bookshop, will open at
approximately 6:30. Signing line tickets will be handed out as line forms. After Ree
speaks and takes questions at the gallery, we will return to the
bookshop for her book signing. We may be able to do some signing before the event to avoid long lines after the event. We have books. But to be sure, pre-purchased books (call 801-484-9100) can be held for you.

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

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

Come join us for National Bookstore Day, a day devoted to celebrating bookselling and the vibrant culture of bookstores on Saturday, November 7th!

$15 fee can be paid at the bookshop, this will cover materials for Fancy Nancy poncho.

RSVP by November 10th so we can have the right amount of materials on hand!

RSVP and questions?

Give the gift of literature for the Holidays, or augment your own library for the long winter nights ahead as you buy books to benefit the Utah Heritage Foundation at The King’s English Bookshop.

From Friday evening, November 13 at 5:00 p.m. through Sunday afternoon November 15 at 4:00 p.m., shoppers at The King’s English can request that 10% of their purchases be donated to Utah Heritage Foundation by depositing the sales receipt in a designated basket at the front counter. The cashier can provide a duplicate receipt for this purpose.

Benefit Dates and Hours

Friday, November 13: 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 14: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 15: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Please tell your friends and family!

And please note: During this special benefit weekend, the store cannot accommodate both the 10% donation to UHF from your purchase and the 10% discount normally extended to UHF members who present a current membership card. We hope that you will choose to make the 10% donation from November 13-15. Thank you!

Give the gift of literature for the Holidays, or augment your own library for the long winter nights ahead as you buy books to benefit the Utah Heritage Foundation at The King’s English Bookshop.

From Friday evening, November 13 at 5:00 p.m. through Sunday afternoon November 15 at 4:00 p.m., shoppers at The King’s English can request that 10% of their purchases be donated to Utah Heritage Foundation by depositing the sales receipt in a designated basket at the front counter. The cashier can provide a duplicate receipt for this purpose.

Benefit Dates and Hours

Friday, November 13: 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 14: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 15: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Please tell your friends and family!

And please note: During this special benefit weekend, the store cannot accommodate both the 10% donation to UHF from your purchase and the 10% discount normally extended to UHF members who present a current membership card. We hope that you will choose to make the 10% donation from November 13-15. Thank you!

Reading Education Assistance Dogs® (R.E.A.D.®), a literacy support program in which children read to therapy animals, is celebrating its first decade of helping children discover the joys of books and reading!

The City Library will host a ten-year anniversary celebration with ITA and the R.E.A.D. dogs on Saturday, November 14, 2009, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children are invited to meet the R.E.A.D. dogs (who will be available for photos and pawtographs); hear stories; play games; see a special sneak preview of Go Dog Go, the children’s musical based on the popular book by P. D. Eastman; and pick up free books and fun prizes during the party.

Event sponsors include Salt Lake City Public Library, KUED-TV Channel 7, Salt Lake County, Nordstrom, The King’s English Bookshop, The Dog’s Meow, and Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories program.

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.

Give the gift of literature for the Holidays, or augment your own library for the long winter nights ahead as you buy books to benefit the Utah Heritage Foundation at The King’s English Bookshop.

From Friday evening, November 13 at 5:00 p.m. through Sunday afternoon November 15 at 4:00 p.m., shoppers at The King’s English can request that 10% of their purchases be donated to Utah Heritage Foundation by depositing the sales receipt in a designated basket at the front counter. The cashier can provide a duplicate receipt for this purpose.

Benefit Dates and Hours

Friday, November 13: 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 14: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 15: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Please tell your friends and family!

And please note: During this special benefit weekend, the store cannot accommodate both the 10% donation to UHF from your purchase and the 10% discount normally extended to UHF members who present a current membership card. We hope that you will choose to make the 10% donation from November 13-15. Thank you!

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 Cake Mix Doctor, Ann Byrn presents her newest cookbook, The Cake Mix Doctor Returns.

This is Anne Byrn’s first time in Utah! She will speak, sign copies of her books, and share lots of goodies from the book!

Please bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Utah Food Bank in preparation for the busy holiday season. For every item you bring, you’ll get a raffle ticket that enters you to win a spectacular gift basket from OXO, makers of fine cooking and baking utensils and much more.

So, the more food items you bring to donate, the better your chances of winning! And the more we help those in need. 

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.

Local author David Kranes reads from The National Tree, his story of the journey of a perfect 75-foot Sitka spruce as it makes it way from its northern California birthplace to its holiday home in Washington, D.C., and the journey of discovery for the father and son who deliver it.

UPDATE: This event will be held at the Rowland Hall-McCarthey Campus at 720 S. Guardsman Way.

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.

“Big dogs, little dogs, red dogs, blue dogs, yellow dogs, green dogs, black
dogs, and white dogs are all at a dog party! What a dog party!”

JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL PREVIEW OF GO, DOG. GO!

In celebration of the holidays, Salt Lake Acting
Company
 presents its first show for children, GO, DOG. GO!, adapted
from P.D. Eastman’s classic book. And on November 28th, they join Rob Eckman and the King's English Bookshop to bring this classic children's book to life for children (and their young-at-heart parents and grandparents). Colorful dogs at work. And at play. Doing what people do. A joyful romp through the building blocks of language, relationships, diversity and...fun!

And don't miss the live performances by the Salt Lake Acting Company:

December 2 - December 27, 2009.

Visit their website for show info and tickets.

See bottom of page for special offer.

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.

10+10=20% discount during our annual King’s English Holiday Party!

On Thursday December 3, 5:30–7 p.m. add an additional 10% to the 10% discount for Buy Local First Week! We’ll have many of your favorite local authors on hand to sign copies of their books, including Heather Armstrong, Pat Bagley, Chris Cokinos, Sister Dottie, Terrell Dougan, Scott Matheson, Jessica Day George, Shannon Hale, Robert Kirby, Carol Lynch Williams, Jean Reagan, Dave Hall, Blake Spalding, Emily Wing Smith, Gerald Elias and Sara Zarr.

Come celebrate Utah’s bounty of literary talent! Let us wrap and mail while you shop.

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.

For ages 3 and up.

Call 801-484-9100 or email to R.S.V.P.by end of business day December 1, 2009.

Questions?

Born to a family that always cared about food, Lucinda Scala Quinn started cooking professionally as a teenager. She has worked as a chef, cooking teacher, caterer, and food writer. She is vice president, editorial director of food and entertaining at Martha Stewart Omnimedia. She appears regularly on NBC's Today and Martha, as well as hosting her weekly radio show and co-hosting PBS's Everyday Food.

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.

Enjoy a nosh while King's English booksellers present books for holiday giving.

We'll wrap and mail for you too!

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.

Join us for the launch of The Dark Divine, by Bree Despain, who currently lives
in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, two young sons, and her
beloved TiVo. This is her first novel.

She'll be doing a book talk, reading, and signing. Refreshments and activities!

Join us for a special storytime and party for kids to celebrate the collaboration between
Sandra Boynton and legendary blues man, B.B. King!

Their new book and DVD is
called One Shoe Blues and was written by
Sandra Boynton. One Shoe Blues presents a thoroughly captivating story and a dazzling
music video on an accompanying 12-minute DVD. Boynton writes, designs,
and directs (her first film ever), King stars (singing, playing, and
turning in a wry and brilliant comic acting performance), and exuberant
Boynton sock puppets chime in.

To find out more and reserve a spot, please call the bookstore at 801-484-9100 or send us an email: CLICK HERE

Presented by the King’s English at the Foothill Library.

Local authors Shannon and Dean Hale present their new graphic novel Calamity Jack, illustrated by Nathan Hale. Scheming Calamity Jack seeks help from Rapunzel and other classic fairy tale characters  to out-swindle evil giants and other challenges in this fantastical adventure. School Librarian Magazine calls this “a rip-roaring twist on a familiar fairy-tale... echoing the Wild West and Super-hero films as well as other fairy-stories.”

Join us for our brand-new quarterly "Local Author Showcase" event on January 12th at 6:30 p.m. We'll be joined by seven local authors, each with a unique new book to share. Whether you're interested in fiction, humor, mystery, or current events, there's something here every reader will enjoy, and you'll get a chance to meet some of Utah's esteemed literary talent. Authors include Ryan Shattuck (Revolutions for Fun and Profit), Charles Amonett (Visible Darkness, Hidden Light), Susanna Barlow (What Peace There May Be: A Memoir), Bonn Turkington (Velwythe), Steven Bates (The Fortuitous Redemption of Mordekiah Liebovitch), S.C. Lang (Original Sin), and Lisa Mangum (The Hourglass Door).

Meet the authors!

April Lynch is an author whose work focuses on health and genetics. As an award-winning journalist, she directed coverage of science, health, and medicine for The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's leading newspaper.

Vickie Venne, MS, CGC, is celebrating 30 years as a genetic counselor. She worked in prenatal, pediatric, and laboratory settings before joining the Hunstman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.
 

Audrey Niffenegger reads from her newest New York Times bestseller Her Fearful Symmetry. Author of The Time Traveler’s Wife,  Niffenegger returns with an unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life—even after death.

"Niffenegger...constructs a taut mystery around secrets...It's no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected."—The New Yorker. "Bewitching...Lovers of Niffenegger's past work should rejoice... Her Fearful Symmetry is as atmospheric and beguiling as a walk through Highgate itself.” —New York Times Book Review.

Tickets are $10 each.
Purchase a copy of Her Fearful Symmetry from TKE to receive two free tickets. Purchased books and tickets can be held for you.

Seating is general admission. Your ticket is your place in the signing line.

SIGNING IN THE BOOKSHOP TO FOLLOW

1st edition hardcovers still available!

Our planet is in trouble. Spiritual leader and environmental activist, Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener tells us that people of faith have the numbers, the passion, and the mandate to to shift to a more sustainable way of living. Cohen-Kiener gathers insights from ecology, social justice coalitions, emerging theologies, and spiritual and environmental activists to rally and inspire us to work across denominational lines to fulfill our sacred imperative to care for God’s creation.

Schedule of events at the I.J. & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center

6:30 p.m. wine & cheese
7:00 p.m. presentation by Andrea Cohen-Kiener
followed by: small-group table conversations led by local interfaith leaders exploring perspectives on stewardship and the sacred Earth.

For more information, call 801-581-0098.

Sponsored by Utah Interfaith Power & Light

Doors for the reading at the 15th Street Gallery, a few doors south of the bookshop, open at 6 p.m. Reading will begin at 7 p.m. with a signing to follow at the bookshop.

Free and open to the public.

Known for his acclaimed nonfiction, including My Own Country and The Tennis Partner, Abraham Verghese reads from his third book, the novel, Cutting for Stone, which will be released in paperback January 26, 2010.

Praise for Cutting for Stone:
“Vivid, thrilling, and completely absorbing....a tremendous accomplishment.” —Atul Gawande
“A riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers [that] will endure in the permanent literature of our time.” —Richard Selzer
“Steeped in both medicine and history, Verghese’s latest book not only entertains but also marks new territory, re-framing the world in the process—it will surely go down as one of the major books of our time.” —Betsy Burton, The King’s English Bookshop

Abraham Verghese is Senior Associate Chair and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine.

In honor of Valentine’s Day the Jung Society of Utah and Pacifica Graduate Institute present a unique and passionate event about love.

No other human emotion surpasses love as the source of great destruction as well as the most notable achievements. Drawing on some of C.G. Jung’s ideas about love and desire, Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery will discuss passages from one of the most celebrated poems about the dynamics of love: Dante Alighieri’s 14th century poem The Divine Comedy. This poem explores the force of love that has direct relevance and presence for us today, as we witness the love for power, persons, and possessions underlying events on the evening news. Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery is a brilliant scholar, a dynamic teacher, a poet and an author of numerous publications relevant to depth psychology. After earning his Ph.D. at the Dallas University, he has accumulated 41 years of teaching, the last 16 at Pacifica Graduate Institute, the premier university for depth psychology in North America.

All mental health professionals are eligible to receive ONE COMPLIMENTARY CEU.

This is a free event.

February’s event is co-sponsored by Pacifica Graduate Institute, which is the premier university for depth psychology in North America. It is an accredited graduate school that offers masters and doctoral degree programs as well as public events in the fields of Psychology, Mythological Studies and Humanities. Pacifica is dedicated to cultivating and harvesting the gifts of the human imagination so that these insights may be brought to bear upon the personal, cultural, and planetary concerns of our era. This dedication is contained in the school’s motto: animae mundi colendae gratia (for the sake of tending soul in and of the world).

For more information about this event and the Jung Society of Utah visit www.jungutah.com

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.

Labor activist, union organizer, attorney and journalist Steve Early just published Embedded with Organized Labor. In the trenches at the Communication Workers of America for twenty years, Steve has published articles in The Nation, The Progressive, The New York Times, and CounterPunch, to name a few. One reviewer says: "Early combines a realistic understanding of union functioning with the passionate outrage of a union reformer." His passion will help forge the link between social justice and a healthy planet.

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.

Tyler Volk presents his new book, CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge, and answers questions. Booksigning to follow.
Volk is the director of the environmental studies program and an associate professor of biology at New York University. For more than 20 years his research has focused on the global carbon cycle and the dynamics of the biosphere. He is a systems thinker, authoring Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, and Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth.

This second event in our new series (the second Friday of each month) of storytime and crafting events for children has a Valentine's theme: sweet stories and treats, then kids 3 and up will decorate their own Valentine's mailboxes. 

RSVP by calling the store or CLICK HERE.

$15 fee includes storytime, snack and a take-home snack and other goodies and must be paid at time of reservation.

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

Experienced outdoorsman and author Robert Birkby will sign Mountain Madness, a personal biography of his late friend and Everest mountaineer Scott
Fischer.

Robert Birkby brings a lifetime of wilderness experience to books energized with a depth of first-hand knowledge. He is also the author of Lightly on the Land and The Boy Scout Handbook. Birkby’s subjects are the people, places, and skills of the outdoors.

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

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

University of Utah history professor Eric Hinderaker will read from and sign The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery.

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Don't miss the much-anticipated, Semi-Annual Sale!

Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21

All hardcover books are 30% off
and 40% off if you buy three or more
including used books

2010 Calendars are 50% off.

Everything else in the store is 10% off.

(Special orders and gift cards not included)

Chris Cleave, novelist and columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London, reads from Little Bee, to be released in paperback February 16, 2010. Booksigning to follow.

"There are books that make you think, and books that make you feel. Then
there are those that do both. Little Bee not only does this, but does
it on a level beyond high. This book just about tore my heart out, and the twisting,
turning, edge-of-your-seat one moment then sighing-with-relief the next
ending left me staring blankly at the last page, trying to process it
all. Its parts are
great -- immigration, identity, love, loss, family, atrocity, hope,
despair -- but the sum is so much greater. What I can tell you is that
this book will shift your perspectives, tickle your funny bone, light
up dark corners of society, then pull you into further darkness before
finding the light again." --Jenn Northington

Cleave's debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize. Little Bee is Chris Cleave's second novel.

Chris Cleave has been a barman, a long-distance sailor, a teacher of marine navigation, an internet pioneer and a journalist. He is 35 and only 5′7″ tall. He lives in London with his French wife and two mischievous Anglo-French children. 

George Schaller is one of the world’s most famous
conservation biologists. Profiled in Peter Mathiessen’s classic The
Snow Leopard, he has done research in 23 countries, spending much of
his
time during the half past century in the wilds of North and South
America,
Africa, and Asia. He has studied and helped protect species as diverse
as snow
leopard, tiger, mountain gorilla, giant panda, Mongolian gazelle,
Tibetan
antelope, and Marco Polo sheep.  His scientific and popular writings
number over 200 articles and 16 books, including The Year of the
Gorilla,
The Serengeti Lion, The Last Panda, and Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe.
He
is a senior conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and
vice
president of Panthera, an organization devoted to the conservation of
wild
cats. 

Schaller will discuss seven of his field studies
that
illustrate his research and conservation efforts on behalf of some of
the
world’s most beautiful species, from mountain gorillas and giant pandas
to lions and jaguars.  He will also discuss his long-term efforts to
help
protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and the wildlife
of the
Tibetan Plateau.

Free and open to the public. No registration
required. 

Presented by the Wallace Stegner Center.

Newbery Award-winning author Richard Peck is very good at weaving together entertaining, often hilarious stories with life lessons while never losing his sense of humor. He has won numerous awards including the Scott O’Dell for River Between Us, the Newbery Award for A Year Down Yonder, and a Newbery Honor for A Long Way from Chicago for which he was also the National Book Award finalist. We will also have copies of A Season of Gifts, Here Lies the Librarian, Fair Weather, Teacher’s Funeral and others on hand.

Polly Horvath will be at the bookshop to sign copies of  Northward to the Moon, a sequel to My One Hundred Adventures and her other books will be available as well.

In her newest book, Jane and her family have moved to Canada . . . but not for long. When her stepfather, Ned, is fired from his job as a high school French teacher (seems he doesn’t speak French), the family packs up and Jane embarks on a series of new adventures.

Polly Horvath is the author of many children’s books, including The Canning Season, winner of the National Book Award, and The Pepins and Their Problems, published by Square Fish in Winter 2008. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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

Phyllis Barber describes her latest memoir, Raw Edges, as "a coming-of-age-in-middle-age story; the account of a bright-eyed young
Mormon couple ([her]self and [her] husband David) who went through an
agonizing process in [their] thirty-three-year marriage, sparked by
differing matters of faith and subsequent infidelity."

Author of How
I Got Cultured, A Nevada Memoir, as well as other fiction titles, Barber was born in Nevada and grew up in Boulder City and Las Vegas. She can
trace her family's Nevada roots to the 1860s. Trained as a classical
pianist, she has served on the Board of Directors for the Utah Symphony, among other achievements.

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.

2010 David P. Gardner Lecture

"Gulliver's Troubles: Obama and America in the Middle East"
with Aaron David Miller
Woodrow Wilson Foundation

Aaron David Miller is a Middle East
analyst, author, and negotiator. Miller published his fourth book, The Much Too Promised Land:
America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace in 2008.

The David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts is administered by the Tanner Humanities Center in collaboration with the College of Humanities, the College of Fine Arts, and the Graduate School. The Gardner Lecture was founded in the University of Utah Graduate School in honor of former President David Pierpont Gardner. The Gardner Lecture features distinguished scholars and artists from the humanities and the fine arts in alternating years.

The lectures are free and open to the public. The lectureship is funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

The Wallace Stegner Center's Fifteenth Annual Symposium takes on The Challenge of Sustainability.

Can we create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy?

Joseph Sax kicks off the Stegner's Center's 15th annual symposium with a lecture, which is free and open to the public, at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Sutherland Moot Courtroom This lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a reception form 6:00 to 6:30 in the S.J. Quinney College of Law foyer.

The symposium continues at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. Registration is required.

For more information and to register, fill out a registration form or register online at: www.law.utah.edu/stegner

Get in touch with the Stegner Center via email,
or phone by calling (801) 585-3440.

The Wallace Stegner Center's Fifteenth Annual Symposium takes on The Challenge of Sustainability.

Can we create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy?

Joseph Sax kicks off the Stegner's Center's 15th annual symposium with a lecture, which is free and open to the public, at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Sutherland Moot Courtroom This lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a reception form 6:00 to 6:30 in the S.J. Quinney College of Law foyer.

The symposium continues at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. Registration is required.

For more information and to register, fill out a registration form or register online at: www.law.utah.edu/stegner

Get in touch with the Stegner Center via email,
or phone by calling (801) 585-3440.

Ahoy, Mateys!

This third event in our series (the second Friday of each month) of storytime and crafting events for children has a pirate theme, Avast!

Kids will go on a treasure hunt, read all about pirates and their adventures, have some treats–then kids 3 and up will create a take-home craft project.
Registration required, $15 per child, please call 801-484-9100.

The Wallace Stegner Center's Fifteenth Annual Symposium takes on The Challenge of Sustainability.

Can we create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy?

Joseph Sax kicks off the Stegner's Center's 15th annual symposium with a lecture, which is free and open to the public, at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Sutherland Moot Courtroom This lecture is free and open to the public. There will be a reception form 6:00 to 6:30 in the S.J. Quinney College of Law foyer.

The symposium continues at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. Registration is required.

For more information and to register, fill out a registration form or register online at: www.law.utah.edu/stegner

Get in touch with the Stegner Center via email,
or phone by calling (801) 585-3440.

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

Lindsey Leavitt reads from and signs Princess For Hire, her hilarious, winning debut about one girl’s dream of glamour and how it transforms into something bigger: the desire to make a positive impact.
Leavitt grew up in Las Vegas and now lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and two little girls. She is hard at work on the next book in the Princess for Hire series. Check out her BLOG.

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

Poet and critic Nicole Walker will read from and sign her debut book of poetry, This Noisy Egg

Join us at the Foothill library for a reading, discussion and slideshow with Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, complete with some of the actual gear they used on their journey.

Erin and Hig are environmental explorers with a taste for off the grid
adventure. Erin’s new book, A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot,
Raft and Ski, chronicles their harrowing 4,000 mile expedition
from Seattle to the first Aleutian Island on foot in early 2007. This was an incredible expedition, and we learn about the people they
met along the way, and the conservation issues they set out to explore -
from dwindling salmon populations to unsustainable logging and pebble
mining.

They finished their trek in 13 months, with a lifetime of photographs and experiences behind them, and the anticipation of their first child.  They decided to start a new life where their journey ended - in a remote fishing village in Alaska, where they run their online environmental non-profit, groundtruthtrekking.org.

Here is a clip from their journey, so that you can see a bit of what they were up against in order to complete their intended goal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mHJAd92zI

New York Times article in the Home and Garden section:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/garden/31yurt.html

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.

The Jung Society presents: Process Work: Dreaming While Awake

Randee Levine, Dipl.PW and Matt Stella, LCSW

Process Work is an awareness practice that supports people in getting along with themselves and the world. Developed by Jungian Analyst Arnold Mindell, Process Work expands Jung's potential-oriented approach to dreams by showing us how to follow the "Dreaming Process" through our waking as well as our sleeping perceptions. When we approach our experiences with awareness and curiosity, they transform and become meaningful and creative. Please join Randee Levine and Matt Stella to acquire specific tools for following the unique approach of Process Work and dreaming while awake.

Randee Levine, Dipl.PW began Process Work training in 1990, and in 1998 received her Process Work Diplomate from the Process Work Institute in Portland Oregon. Originally from New York, she now lives in SLC here she maintains a private Process Work practice for individuals, couples and groups, she teaches classes and workshops, and consults with organizations. Randee is also an esteemed local artist.

Matt Stella, LCSW is a psychotherapist and group facilitator and has been in private practice at Red Rock Counseling & Education in Salt Lake City since 2001. He is a Process Work Diplomate, and uses the Process Work approach in his healing and awareness work with individuals, couples and groups.

This is a free event!

All mental health professionals are eligible to receive ONE COMPLIMENTARY CEU.

For more information about this event, visit their website: Jung Society of Utah

The Tanner Humanities Center is proud to present the 2010 World Leaders Lecture Forum with Dr. James Orbinski, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Doctors Without Borders.

Dr. Orbinski is former president of the medical aid organization “Doctors Without Borders,” accepting a Nobel Peace prize for the organization in 1999.  He has provided humanitarian aid, protection and medical assistance for thousands of people as Doctors Without Borders' chief of mission at the genocide in Rwanda and the civil war in Zaire, and advocates for access to essential medicines, global health governance and humanitarian crisis management.

All events are free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
For more information, please contact the Tanner Humanities Center at (801) 581-7989 or by email.

Join us for the second installment of our quarterly "Local Author Showcase" event. We'll be joined by five local authors, each with a unique new book to share. This month's authors include Becca Wilhite (Bright Blue Miracle, My Ridiculous Romantic Obsessions), Todd Robert Petersen (Rift), Richard Landerman (The Man Fisher), and Jennifer Mosher (The Smile on My Forehead: Memoir of My Life With a Brain Injury).

UPDATE April 6: Travis
Poulson (I am Tom Morrow) will not be attending event.

Meet Salt Lake City playwright Kathleen Cahill, presented in conjunction with the Salt Lake Acting Company.

She will read from and discuss her new play: the magical, surreal, and transcendentally goofy CHARM begins its World Premiere on April 14th and runs through May 9th.

For tickets, call 801.363.7522 or go online to Salt Lake Acting Company. 

As part of the Middle East Mosaic Series, author Haleh Esfandiari will be at the I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center to discuss her book, My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran. This is a great opportunity to meet and listen to this incredible woman's story.

This program is sponsored by I.J. and Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center and the Middle East Center in the College of Humanities at the University of Utah and with the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center.

For more information, contact: Carla  Cantor at 801-581-0098 or ccantor@slcjcc.org or visit their website, www.slcjcc.org.

Due to requirements for pre-registration not being fulfilled, this month's Friday Fun for Kids will be canceled.

Join us for the next Friday Fun for Kids, our storytime and crafting event for children, Friday, May 14, 4 p.m.

Two incredible poets in one evening...Chris Green and Elise Paschen will read from and sign their latest works of poetry, Epiphany School and Bestiary, respectively.

Chris Green is the author of two books of poetry: Epiphany School and The Sky Over Walgreens. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Verse, Black Clock, North American Review, and RATTLE. He edited the anthology, A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barack Obama’s Inauguration. He teaches poetry at DePaul University and is a Visiting Fellow at DePaul’s Humanities Center.

Elise Paschen is the author of Bestiary, Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic, The Hudson Review, and TriQuarterly. Former Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, she is the editor of The New York Times best-selling anthology Poetry Speaks to Children and Poetry Speaks Who I Am and co-editor of Poetry Speaks, Poetry Speaks Expanded, Poetry in Motion, and Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast. Please visit:  ElisePaschen.com

Professor Wilfred Samuels and the University of Utah present author Martha Southgate as part of the "Writers Like Us: Contemporary African American Writers" series.

Southgate will speak and sign copies of her books.