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 …
In this 1995 essay, which was later published in the Case Reports (Vol 2) published by The Mormon Alliance, I talk about a tempest in a tea pot which nevertheless had wide ramifications in Mormonland during the early to mid-80s. My father was at the center of it. I don’t …
This essay was originally a talk given at The Sunday Gathering, August 21, 1994 at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City. It was later printed in Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring, 1998. WHEN MY FIRST MARRIAGE ENDED IN DIVORCE in 1991, what I describe as my …
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
Co-sponsored by City Art and the Salt Lake City Public Library September 23, 2015 The City Library (Main) 210 E. 400 S. Salt Lake City, UT 7:00 PM Author David Pace will be reading from and discussing his debut novel Dream House on Golan Drive, which will be for sale and …
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 …
