In this article published in The Park Record in Park City, Utah, journalist Scott Iwasaki teases out the genesis of Dream House in advance of the reading / book signing of the novel in this mining-turned-resort town in the Wasatch Mountains. “Salt Lake City-based author David G. Pace is a former theater …
This conversation with blogger Mette Ivie Harrison appeared on Huffington Post Dec. 1, 2015. At the time, the LDS (Mormon) Church had made a policy change that the children of cohabiting (conjugal) gay parents–now considered “apostate”–would not be allowed to be blessed, or baptized into the Church or otherwise …
In 2002, the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City was an opportunity for the LDS Church to present itself to the world. The theatrical extravaganza titled “Light of the World” was staged downtown at the new indoor Conference Center which seats a whopping 22,000. This review which appeared in Dialogue, …
In this essay I talk about the persistence of polygamy (plural marriage) in the faith of my childhood and the tradition of my choice: Mormonism. Polygamy reigned on both sides of my family during the 19th Century when founding prophet Joseph Smith Jr. instigated the practice in the Mississippi River …
This essay is a valentine to my ten sisters who several years ago became obsessed with the Oregon-based musical group PINK MARTINI. Originally, this piece won the Writers at Work narrative nonfiction contest and was later published in the journal Quarterly West. Later it was republished by Phone FIction, which …
Our guest for the hour today is Utah author David G. Pace whose debut novel Dream House on Golan Drive is published by Signature Books. It is the year 1972, and Riley Hartley finds that he, his family, community, and his faith are entirely indistinguishable from each other. He is …
A review of Dream House by retired BYU professor / playwright Eric Samuelsen in 15 Bytes Magazine. “David Pace’s semi-autobiographical novel, Dream House on Golan Drive, navigates this map full of Mormon cultural terrains with dexterity and precision, thumping over bumps in the road, while simultaneously suggesting the possibility of flight. …
In this Aug 16, 2008 talk I was asked to participate in a THIS I BELIEVE session at the Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium. I was one of, I believe, six speakers who were tasked with illuminating . . . well, what we believe. I was pretty pleased with how this …
DREAM HOUSE ON GOLAN DRIVE by David G. Pace December 14, 2015–CANCELLED (due to weather) Rescheduled for Dec. 28, 2015 5:30 PM Park City Roasters 1680 W Ute Blvd (Kimball Junction) Park City, UT Sorry for the inconvenience. The original date for this reading was cancelled due to the snowstorm …
January 20, 2016 7:00 PM Storytelling Wing Orem Public Library 58 N. State St. Orem, UT Last year as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, I attended a reading by Oregon-based author Brian Doyle with my friends Stephen Carter and Larry Menlove. Doyle is amazing: funny, earnest, and what …
