{"id":6414,"date":"2014-10-14T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2014-10-14T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:57:00","slug":"looking-for-something-to-read-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/14\/looking-for-something-to-read-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Something to Read, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, folks, another little PSA on behalf of one of my friends:<\/p>\n<p>My old college buddy Jaren Rencher just announced (with no small measure of well-deserved pride) that his short story &#8220;Hunger&#8221; has been accepted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/utahhorror.org\/Welcome.html\">Utah Horror Writers<\/a> for inclusion in their anthology <em>Old Scratch and Owl Hoots: A Collection of Utah Horror<\/em>. I read the story a couple weeks back and thought it was a wonderfully creepy piece that utilized familiar Old West story tropes for good effect, as well as playing very nicely off the reputation of one of Utah&#8217;s more notorious historical figures, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Porter_Rockwell\">Porter Rockwell<\/a>, a.k.a. Brigham Young&#8217;s &#8220;Destroying Angel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds like it might be up your alley, the anthology is currently available for <a href=\"http:\/\/griffinpublishers.com\/UTHorrorPreOrder.html\">pre-order<\/a> until October 31st at the suitably Halloween-ish price of $6.66 &#8212; half off the suggested retail price &#8212; with publication set for January 2015. I&#8217;ve already ordered my copy!<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, if anyone reading this is not from Utah and thus doesn&#8217;t know Porter Rockwell from porter beer, you ought to read up on him; he was a fascinating guy. One of my favorite anecdotes involving him is the time the Victorian explorer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Francis_Burton\">Richard Burton<\/a> &#8212; another fascinating guy, no relation to the film actor who married Elizabeth Taylor multiple times &#8212; was camping in the Salt Lake Valley not far from where I grew up, and encountered Rockwell. These two supreme badasses knew each other by reputation, and spent the evening passing a jug of whiskey around the campfire and trading war stories. (In my imagination, they also compared scars, talked of women they&#8217;d had, and generally tried to out-macho each other.) This is all recounted in Burton&#8217;s book <em>The City of the Saints, <\/em>which is a thorough travelogue and ethnography of what was at that time &#8212; 1865 &#8212; an exotic and mysterious people, i.e., the Mormons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, folks, another little PSA on behalf of one of my friends: My old college buddy Jaren Rencher just announced (with no small measure of well-deserved pride) that his short story &#8220;Hunger&#8221; has been accepted by the Utah Horror Writers for inclusion in their anthology Old Scratch and Owl Hoots: A Collection of Utah Horror. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}