“Utah Lit” will recommend a monthly selection and provide background and context for those reading the book. The final Sunday of each month, an author interview will publish at sltrib.com and in The Tribune’s print edition in advance of a live TribTalk video chat about the book moderated by Jennifer Napier-Pearce. That discussion will take place live at 12:15 p.m. on the final Friday of each month. An archived version of the chat will be available at sltrib.com, where readers also will be able to download a podcast.

 

The club will explore regional writers who take on issues important in the West such as Richman, whose novel is built around a controversial Nevada water pipeline. Other 2014 selections will look at the state’s many writers of genre books and books that provide context to our state’s cultural divide and extend the conversation in interesting ways.

 

More information about “Utah Lit” is available on The Salt Lake Tribune “Utah Lit” Facebook page, facebook.com/utalit.

 

February: The Bishop's Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison

March: Never-Open Desert Diner by James Anderson

April: Tributary by Barbara Richardson

May: We are Called to Rise by Laura McBride

June: Morman Rivals by Matt Canham & Thomas Burr

July: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee