Maximilian Werner & Margaret Erhart
01/06/2010 7:00 pm
University of Utah writing professor Maximilian Werner visits with Black River Dreams, his collection of literary fly fishing essays that explores the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, ghosts and dreams. Werner is the winner of the 2008 Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Award for Nonfiction. Also tonight, Margaret Erhart, a river and hiking guide in the Grand Canyon, presents her novel, The Butterflies of the Grand Canyon. When Jane Merkle arrives in the tiny town of Flagstaff with her much older husband on a summer day in 1951, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever. But over a summer spent with her sister-in-law, Dotty, and Dotty’s lepidopterist husband in a village perched on the rim of the Grand Canyon, Jane discovers her ability with a butterfly net and her attraction to a handsome young ranger. Meanwhile, an unidentified skeleton is found on the premises of one of the village’s most cantankerous citizens. With the help -- and hindrance -- of a colorful cast of historical characters, the murder mystery that has haunted the town for years is solved. Erhart, a teacher of creative writing on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, has published essays in the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor, and her commentaries have appeared on National Public Radio.
Location:
- Street:
- Changing Hands Bookstore
- Additional:
- 6428 S McClintock Dr
- City:
- Tempe ,
- Province:
- Arizona
- Postal Code:
- 85283
- Country:
- United States
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