ForImmediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Nicole Walker and JuliaCorbet to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday September October3rd, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
City Art presentsauthors Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at the City Library on Wednesday,October 3rd at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room.
In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to livesustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. After all,who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway,who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels, tsktsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing thedevastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity andabundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from heruneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescentlies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits.With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to ourinnate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitmentto sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves.
This book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, thewould-be environmentalist. It’s for those who believe the planet is dying. Forthose who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means tolive and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope.
Walker's previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms,Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been publishedin Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School andother places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—anArtist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowshipfrom the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at NorthernArizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Julia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication andEnvironmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With abackground in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academicresearch and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the naturalworld. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and healthcommunication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflictand change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication,Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages(2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteadsin the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woodsin western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Outof the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of NevadaPress) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in oureveryday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationshipwith it.
This event was made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, andUtah Humanities.
Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading.
Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long
