For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Eric Blix and Rhett Cooper to
read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 1st, 7:00—8:00
P.M.
Authors
Eric Blix Rhett Cooper will read from their work on Wednesday, November 1st at
7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading
Series and the Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event is free and open to
the public.
Eric Blix’s book, a story collection
entitled Physically Alarming Men, was
published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. The stories in this
collection explore the complications of a present contaminated by the past.
Some plots: a trio of fraudsters set up camp outside a northern Minnesota Peat
Bog hoping to kidnap two brothers said to be gifted with the ability to heal;
an emotionally stunted maintenance worker steals his wealthy client's child to
go noodling for catfish; a woman abandons her husband on the side of the road
during a quixotic road trip to his hometown. Originally from northwestern
Minnesota, I earned my MFA at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I currently
reside in Salt Lake City, where I study in the PhD program in creative writing
at the University of Utah.
Rhett Cooper was born and
raised in Fillmore, Utah. He earned a BA in English Teaching from the
University of Utah and will be graduating with an MFA in Creative Writing from
the University of Utah in Spring 2018. Rhett's interest include his family,
writing, sex, TV, and superheroes. Rhett is writing a manuscript titled Nothing is Secret, a collection of
stories about gay mormon drug addicts, all of whom are/were probably him, after
which he will proceed with his 15-point plan to arouse bi-curiosity in
superlative man Henry Cavill.
Most
featured readings are followed by an open reading.
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.
Joel Long