Revolutions For Fun and Profit

Ryan Shattuck provides a sporadically funny mock guidebook to leading the uprising.

Shattuck isn't necessarily qualified to write a revolutionary guidebook—after all, he's never started his own. But, writing...

Utah in the Twentieth Century

Book chronicles the state’s social and cultural transitions.

Since the book is written by academics, it does a good job of tracing and documenting how the stereotypes about this place came to be.

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.