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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping