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Brian Goldstone, author of There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one.
Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem.
By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for…
Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library, downtown. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/brian-goldstone-working-homeless/. Transportation / Parking: Free parking available in the library parking garage. Contact Phone: 801-581-7989. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 10, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
National Theatre Live, "All My Sons"
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).
One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions?
Filmed live from the West End, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon), and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) also feature in this disturbingly prescient play. Since 2009, National Theatre Live has brought acclaimed British theatre to over 5.5 million viewers worldwide, featuring productions like Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Yerma with Billie Piper. Each show is filmed live with cameras placed to give cinema…
Alternate Location: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. An Evening with Great Books
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin’s most recent novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, spent over a year on the New York Times Best Seller List and was chosen a best book of the year by more than twenty-five publications, including the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Time, the New York Times, Slate, the Hollywood Reporter, and Oprah Daily. In 2024, Tomorrow was named to the New York Times list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. She is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Young Jane Young, The Hole We’re In, and Elsewhere. Her books have been translated into over forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles. — gabriellezevin.com A book-signing will follow, courtesy of The King’s English Bookshop. This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Additional support from Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Public Library, and O.C. Tanner.
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Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library downtown. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/gabrielle-zevin/. Transportation / Parking: Free parking available in the library garage. Contact Phone: 801-581-7989. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Jeremy Rosen, author of Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction
Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as “genre bending” and argues that while literary writers adopt genres for a wide variety of purposes, what they share is a revitalized attitude toward genre—a recognition that while genres can be used in formulaic ways, they can also be adapted and transformed endlessly.
Rosen reads across the outpouring of fiction of the last several decades by writers like Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Kazuo Ishiguro, Chang-rae Lee, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, and Colson Whitehead. He finds that literary writers’ embrace of popular genres is the product of several seemingly contradictory forces, including their attempt to extend a…
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/jeremy-rosen-genre-bending/. Contact Phone: 801-581-7989. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. National Theatre Live, “The Playboy of the Western World”
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets. Since 2009, National Theatre Live has brought acclaimed British theatre to over 5.5 million viewers worldwide, featuring productions like Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Yerma with Billie Piper. Each show is filmed live with cameras placed to give cinema audiences the “best seat in the house.”
The Tanner Humanities Center began screening National Theatre Live in 2010, now hosted at Salt Lake Film…
Alternate Location: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/the-playboy-of-the-western-world-national-theatre-live/. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Saturday, October 24, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Mongane Wally Serote, National Poet Laureate of South Africa
South African poet and novelist Mongane Wally Serote, born in 1944, was politically active against the apartheid regime. He was detained without trial and held in solitary confinement under the Terrorism Act. After earning an MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship, he was barred from reentering South Africa, and he lived in exile in Botswana and London before returning to South Africa in 1990. A member of the African National Congress, he was elected to Parliament in the pivotal election of Nelson Mandela’s government in 1994.
Serote’s talk will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Soweto uprising in the context of his friendship with Steve Biko and other members of the Black Consciousness Movement, and will consider parallels to the Black Power Movement and Black Lives Matter Movement. He will also give a short reading from his work.
Serote’s work speaks directly to political resistance and engagement. His collections include Yakhal’inkomo (The Cry of Cattle at the Slaughterhouse,…
Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library downtown. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/mongane-wally-serote/. Transportation / Parking: Free parking available in the library garage. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.