{"id":718,"date":"2006-10-26T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2006-10-26T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:25:50","slug":"the_great_salt_lake_book_festi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/26\/the_great_salt_lake_book_festi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Salt Lake Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a public service announcement for any local bibliophiles who may be reading my humble blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utahhumanities.org\/BookFestival.htm\">The Great Salt Lake Book Festival<\/a> is now underway at the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archidose.org\/Feb04\/020204.html\">Salt Lake Main Library<\/a>. The Festival&#8217;s director, Rebecca Batt, is an acquaintance of mine, and it looks like she&#8217;s done a fine job this year. The schedule for the next three days is packed with interesting speakers from the Western literary scene, including the novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivandoig.com\/\">Ivan Doig<\/a>, nature photographer and writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephentrimble.net\/\">Stephen Trimble<\/a>, graphic novelist Dave Sim and artist Gerhard (the creators of the monumental work <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cerebus_the_Aardvarkl\">Cerebus<\/a>), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevehendricks.org\/\">Steve Hendricks<\/a>, a journalist who has just published what sounds like a very intriguing book on the way the FBI derailed the mid-70s movement for American Indian rights. Also on hand are Salt Lake&#8217;s favorite <i>Jeopardy<\/i> champ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ken-jennings.com\/\">Ken Jennings<\/a> and Betsy Burton, the outspoken advocate of independent booksellers and co-owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/kingsenglish.booksense.com\/NASApp\/store\/IndexJsp\">The King&#8217;s English<\/a> bookshop.<br \/>\nFor those, like me, who probably won&#8217;t be able to attend in person, a number of the author lectures will be broadcast on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.kcpw.org\/\">KCPW<\/a>, a radio station that&#8217;s headquartered at Library Square on 88.3 FM, 1010 AM, and, of course, over the Web. Should be some good stuff going on&#8230; check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a public service announcement for any local bibliophiles who may be reading my humble blog: The Great Salt Lake Book Festival is now underway at the beautiful Salt Lake Main Library. The Festival&#8217;s director, Rebecca Batt, is an acquaintance of mine, and it looks like she&#8217;s done a fine job this year. The schedule [&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-718","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\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}