Ghosts of Glen Canyon

Land of the Lost: Ghosts of Glen Canyon revisits a submerged world.

C. Gregory Crampton tries to put us "there" in the beautiful place that was the pre-Powell canyon, describing things that may well have been lost forever...

Sara Zarr, Emily Wing Smith & Ann Dee Ellis

Young at Heart: Utah young-adult authors discuss the genre--and mutual respect--that unites them.

Over the past few years, Utah has seen the emergence of several talented voices in young-adult fiction—books targeted at "tween" and teen readers. City Weekly gathered three of these authors...

The Appearance of Evil

The Actor and the Housewife finds its heroine walking close to a dangerous line.

Utah author Shannon Hale has pulled a publishing coup...

True Believers

A new book explores familiar and unfamiliar tales of the unusual from Utah.

Sometimes, you're in the mood for a full sit-down dinner centered on a main course; other times, you just want to sample a variety of items from a buffet ...

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The Weirdest Two Years: 1 missionary memoir plus 1 mind-blowing New Age freakout equals 2.

Over the years, plenty of Utah-spawned literature has been the product of disillusionment with the LDS Church. There have been memoirs and fictional tales, some mournful and some bitter, an entire subgenre of recovering ...

Longshot

Beyond the Game: Lance Allred covers more interesting ground than the typical athlete bio.

The category of sports memoir/autobiography isn't generally a place to find good literature. In most cases, the athletes don't do the writing, instead leaving the task to cliché-spewing sportswriters. Terrell Owens once famously alleged he'd been...

Picture These

A roundup of notable illustrated books by Utah authors.

Utah authors have shown us talents that run from stunning poetry to heartbreaking novels to illuminating works of nonfiction. But its probably no surprise to find, in this most family-centric of states, that there are many appealing local works intended for a ladies, gentlemen and children of all ages.

Ellis in Wonderland

Avatar Press seems to let Warren Ellis do whatever he wants—and fortunately, just about everything he decides to do is fantastic. Ellis has a way to packing more story into a single issue than most writers can fit in six, and his line of “graphic novellas” is the perfect example.

Books | Edifice Complex: Salt Lake City: Then and Now profiles a city through what we’ve built, and torn down

The history of Salt Lake City can basically be boiled down to this: The Mormons showed up and started building a town. Other types of people showed up and contributed to the mix. There were struggles and tough times along the way, but the capital city...

Books | Stage Readings: Two books with local theater ties cover different sides of putting together new plays

Blame that high school English class in which you slogged your way through a paperback edition of Hamlet: The combination of plays and reading probably feels like homework. Perhaps even worse, it feels like homework that doesn’t even allow you to...