Fiction writer Ron Carlson will read from his work February 13th at 7:00 at
the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Ron Carlson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel
Five Skies, selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Los Angeles
Times. His new book on writing fiction, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, was also
published in 2007. His selected stories is A Kind of Flying, (W.W. Norton
2003), and his short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker,
Gentlemen's Quarterly, Epoch, The North American Review and other journals, as
well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The
Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and dozens of
other anthologies. A graduate of the University of Utah, Mr. Carlson is
Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California,
Irvine. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in
Fiction, and the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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