Literary footnotes

STAN LARSON, curator of manuscripts, University of Utah Marriott Library, and SAMUEL J. PASSEY, director of the Uintah County Library and Regional History Center in Vernal, co-editors, and DAWN HOUSE, reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune and contributor to "The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854-1880," will discuss their book, today, 3 p.m., at The Sunday Afternoon Books and Authors Series, Little Theater, A. Ray Olpin Union Building, at the U.

RON CARLSON, director, graduate program in fiction, University of California at Irvine, well-known Salt Lake City-born novelist of "Five Skies," will read from his work, Wednesday, 7 p.m., Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South.

SARA ZARR, Salt Lake-based author of "Story of a Girl" and, more recently, "Sweethearts," will read from her work, Wednesday, 7 p.m., Barnes and Noble, 1104 E. 2100 South.

BUCKY SINISTER, poet, will read from his new collection of poems, "All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go," Friday, 7 p.m., Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East.

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