Martha Beck’s Leaving the Saints is valuable . . . .Why? Because in my view the book is so very Mormon. There are rich and telling descriptions of the Church and of Mormon culture, particularly as it configures in Utah Valley,more precisely at church-owned Brigham Young University. Many of us are apt to …
This paper was first read at the annual Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City. It was later published as an essay in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 36 No. 3 (Fall 2003) “THE POPULAR FILM MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING suggests that enthic families will flood pell mell into any …
In this lengthy review Les Roka references “American Trinity,” Pace’s first published short story and narrative precursor to Dream House on Golan Drive. “The sense of this unique, strange place of Utah and Mormonism is elucidated with conviction and accuracy….Dream House on Golan Drive is an important novel that deserves …
by Ellen Fagg Weist “If David Pace’s novel about a young man reared in a large, devoted Utah family rings with authenticity, that’s because its themes have autobiographical resonance for its author. “Pace, the literary editor of the Utah arts magazine 15 Bytes, will launch his first novel, “Dream House …
“[R]ife with the universal struggles between good and evil, sin and righteousness, culture and truth, strength and weakness, and [the] dissonance between what we gain through experiential learning and rote imprinting. Thought provoking, and at times humorous and heart wrenching, Dream House on Golan Drive is a multi-layered and artfully …
Join us at King’s English Bookshop for a launch event of “Dream House on Golan Drive” When: November 10, 2015, 7pm Where: King’s English, 1511 S. 1500 E. Salt Lake City What: Reading and book launch with author David G. Pace pre-order book here
Announcing my first book: Dream House on Golan Drive, forthcoming from Signature Books (Salt Lake City) August 2015. 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 eleven. A young woman named Lucy claims …
This review originally appeared in 15 Bytes Magazine. “House Under the Moon” was a finalist for the 2013 15 Bytes Book Awards in poetry. I liked this book partly because I’ve met Michael personally in Logan where he and his family live, and partly because he’s a practitioner of Buddhist …
In the fall of 2013 the winners of the first annual 15 Bytes Book Awards were announced. As the literary editor of this online arts magazine, I had the privilege of working with other magazine staff and the editor, Shawn Rossiter, to determine all the particulars of launching a new …
“It’s rare to read poetry that is this experiential, visceral and somehow transcendent at the same time. In three sections Bertram runs her electric fingers as if over the braille of American life as varied as wildlife (coyotes, elk), the natural sciences (inter-galactic formulas, weather patterns—in both a …
