For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
David
Kranes and Eric Howerton to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 6, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Fiction writers David Kranes and
Eric Howerton will read from their works on Wednesday November 6th at the Salt
Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
David Kranes is a writer of seven novels and three
volumes of short stories—most recently, (novel) Making The Ghost Dance (2005) and (stories) The Legend’s Daughter (2013).
His 2001 novel, The National Tree,
was made into a film by Hallmark, which aired in November 2009. His short fiction (appearing in such
magazines as Esquire, Ploughshares,
Transatlantic Review) has won literary prizes and has been
anthologized. Over 40 of his plays have
been performed in New York and across the U.S. (in theaters such as The Actors’
Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater Club,
Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park), and his Selected Plays was published in 2010. His most recent theater venture was
contributing a play to an evening (with the prompt of “bravery”) of six short
plays—3 by American playwrights, 3 by Iraqi playwrights. He has written for radio, film and for dance
companies. The opera, Orpheus Lex, for which he wrote the
libretto, was performed at New York City’s Symphony Space in February of
2010. In his second (or is it third?)
life, Mr. Kranes, travels and consults in the casino industry.
Eric Howerton is currently
a 5th-year PhD candidate in Fiction at the University of Houston’s Creative
Writing Program, a former fiction editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of
Literature and Fine Arts, and a current
adjunct faculty member at Weber State University where he teaches composition
and creative writing. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of
New Mexico and a Master's of Fine Arts in Fiction from The Pennsylvania State
University. His fiction and journalism have appeared or are forthcoming in PANK, The
Higgs Weldon, Night Train, Grey
Sparrow, Duck and Herring Pocket Field
Guides, Johnny America, Haggard and Halloo, as well as several alternative weeklies in Texas and New Mexico. He
is currently at work on a novel about experimental heavy metal music,
theoretical physics, and the end of the world, and a collection of short
stories.
City Art is
sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,
the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
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