Artist: Pedro Rico is a nonbinary Xicano a community organizer and creator. Follow them at @xicanx_creative on Instagram. FICTION &NON - FICTION FICTION & NON-FICTION In Conversation: Meredith Hall and Lily Brooks- Meredith Hall's memoir Without a Map was Dalton instantly recognized as a classic of the Youtube genre and became a New York Times Weller Book Works bestseller. Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel, September 2 at 7 PM Good Morning, Midnight (Random House, Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar 2016), has been translated into 17 languages and is the inspiration for the film adaptation, The Midnight Sky. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is Revolts with Dr. Rebecca Hall Weller Book Works an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the September 4 at 6 PM story of women-led slave revolts and Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Orem Reads Kickoff: Storyteller Donald Davis Join us for a delightful evening of Ashton Auditorium, Library Hall Appalachian folktales, tall tales, and family Orem Public Library stories with September 7 at 7 PM storyteller Donald Davis, a Timpanogos Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar Storytelling Festival favorite who hails from North Carolina. Canyonlands Carnage with Scott Graham When suspicious deaths befall a Crowdcast whitewater rafting expedition through The King’s English Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National September 8 at 6 PM Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier—or turns on them instead. Scary Stories for Young Foxes with Christian When Mia and Uly are separated from McKay Heidicker their litters, they discover a dangerous The King’s English world full of monsters. In order to find a September 10 at 6 PM den to call home, they must venture Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers for their flesh, a witch who tries to steal their skins, a ghost who hunts them through the snow . and other things too scary to mention. FICTION & NON-FICTION Wallace with Jenifer Nii Utah was the birthplace of Wallace Zoom Link Thurman, a gay Black man who became a The Mayor’s Office for New Americans prominent figure in the Harlem September 10 at 7 PM Renaissance. Join us for a live reading of Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar Fire! by Jenifer Nii, which premiered as the Wallace Thurman half of Plan-B Theatre's WALLACE in 2010. Read by Carleton Bluford. Directed by Jerry Rapier. The Desert Between Us with Phyllis Barber The Desert Between Us is a sweeping, Park City Library multi-layered novel based on the U.S. September 11 at 11 AM government’s decision to open more Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock. Landspeed: Bonneville Women on Land Speed At Bonneville, record holders must first Racing earn the right to present themselves on the Weller Book Works starting line. This requires passing rigorous September 12 at 2 PM safety and technical checks for driver, Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar rider, and speed machine. Through the years, more than 200 women have made the cut and donned fireproof clothing and helmets. Dozens have set land speed records—35 in excess of 200 miles per hour, six above 300 miles per hour, and one deaf female racer who roared past 500 miles per hour. Since 1949, women have played an integral part. Without question, land speed racing has more women actively participating and setting records than any other segment of motorsports in the world. Evening Ethics with Katherine Standefer What if a lifesaving medical device causes U o U School of Medicine loss of life along its supply chain? That's September 14 at 7 PM the question Katherine E. Standefer finds Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir, Standefer tells the story of her troubled relationship to her own ICD. FICTION & NON-FICTION Water: A Biography with Giulio Boccalett Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Crowdcast Boccaletti—honorary research associate at The King’s English the Smith School of Enterprise and the September 15 at 6 PM Environment, University of Oxford—shrewdly Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization. Stories of Maize with Jorge Rojas and Dr. Roberto “If you want to know who you are and where Cintli Rodriguez you come from, follow the maíz.” That was Kimball Art Center the advice given to author Roberto Cintli September 15 at 6:30 PM Rodriguez when he was investigating the Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States Humanities in the Wild: Aztlan Join Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez on Antelope Antelope Island State Park Island for a deep dive into the history and September 16 at 10 AM folklore about Aztlan, the legendary Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar homeland of the Mexica. Participants will take a two-hour hike with Dr. Rodriguez and reflect on the importance of Aztlan to contemporary conversations about place, identity, and social justice. Spots limited. Contact Willy Palomo ASAP to reserve your spot at [email protected]. Ken Brewer Celebration of Writing Inaugural The inaugural reading will be given by Reading by Christopher Cokino Christopher Cokinos, who was a colleague Utah State University Amphitheater and friend of Ken’s. His love of the Wasatch September 16 at 6 PM and Utah is reflected in his work, which Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar includes The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, the lyric essay collection Bodies of the Holocene and his chapbook Held as Earth. Most recently he's the author of the New American Press Prize-winning poetry collection The Underneath and co- editor of Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. FICTION & NON-FICTION This is the Plate with Jean Irwin Jean Irwin and members of the Japanese- Zoom Link American Utah community will guide the The Mayor’s Office for New Americans audience through the cooking process for a September 16 at 7 PM traditional meal. Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar Deep Creek with Pam Houston On her 120-acre homestead high in the Stokes Nature Center Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam September 16 at 7 PM Houston learns what it means to care for a Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar piece of land and the creatures on it. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive." Chinese Women Writers and the Environment Join the Asia Center for an in-depth Zoom Link conversation with Dong isbister, Xiumei Pu, The Center for Latin American Studies, U o U and Stephen D. Rachman, editors of Chinese September 17 at 12 PM Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi- Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar Ethnic Anthology of Fiction and Nonfiction, and author Burao Yilu. The stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer readers a unique and generous array of women's experiences in China. The Mobility Project with Danny Quintana For 20 years Lisa Murphy, Jeff Murphy and a Weller Book Works group of volunteers traveled the world with September 18 at 2 PM the Mobility Project, delivering the gift of Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar mobility to the poorest people on the planet. They helped tens of thousands of disabled poor to gain mobility and hope. Book Club Discussion about Book of Delights Discuss Book of Delights by Ross Gay Reading Garden together before the author event in October. Park City Library The Book of Delights is about our shared September 18 at 10 AM bonds, and the rewards that come from a life Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar closely observed. These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight. FICTION & NON-FICTION Home is Not a Country with Safia Elhillo Emerald Project is excited to host Safia Zoom Link Elhillo, acclaimed poet and author of Home Is Emerald Project Not A Country, a novel-in-verse for teens. September 18 at 6 PM Nima wishes she were someone else. She Event on Utah Humanities Book Festival Calendar doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land.