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Albert Goldbarth

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ALBERT GOLDBARTH, poet, and BRENDA MILLER, nonfiction writer, will read from their work Thursday, 7 p.m., Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1325 E. 100 South in Reservoir Park, as part of Guest Writers Series, sponsored by the University of Utah English department.

UTAH CENTER FOR THE BOOK announces a call for entries for the 2004 Utah Book Award. Four books will be honored as the best to represent the literary culture of the state in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children/youth literature. The contest is open to Utah authors and books with a Utah theme or setting. Deadline for entries is Dec. 10, 2004. Winners will be announced April 23, 2005, at the Salt Lake City Library. Visit www.slcpl.lib.ut.us.

RED BUTTE PRESS, University of Utah, announces a new limited edition of "Something Lived, Something Dreamed: Urban Design and the American West," by William McDonough, internationally known architect and author. Release date: November 2004.

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