WE'LL BE TAKING IN SECONDHAND BOOKS FOR CREDIT AGAIN BEGINNING TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13TH - THANKS!

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JOIN US FOR THESE TERRIFIC UPCOMING EVENTS!

BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR
ANDREW
J. PIXTON
SATURDAY, OCT. 3RD
1:00 - 4:00 P.M.

Following an eviction, Arthur Monson is forced into the streets of Salt Lake City. What's worse? He's becoming a ghoul. Facing homelessness, Arthur has a new problem: He's becoming a ghoul. This doesn't change much about how society sees him, but his transformation makes everything much, much worse.

Andrew John Pixton of Salt Lake City is the author of several acclaimed dark fantasy and horror novels, Fables From Nevermore being his latest release. Known for exploring unusual worlds and unconventional philosophies, he's now branch-ing into new genres. When he's not crafting tales of the surreal and sinister, Andrew sustains a career in social work and enjoys traveling, practicing martial arts, and  indulging his love for vegan cookies.

We can't wait to host Andrew Pixton at The Printed Garden Saturday afternoon, September 19th to sign copies of his new Whisper House Press novella, Goul!  Whisper House is a modest Salt Lake City press that specializes in horror fiction, and their first two anthologies, Dread Mondays and Costs of Living, collect some of the freshest new horror fiction from around the world.  Publisher Steve Capone, Jr. will be on hand with copies of the anthologies as well.  This event is free, open to the public, and will begin at 11:00 a.m.
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BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR
MARICLAIRE
NORTON
SATURDAY, NOV. 7TH
1:00 - 4:00 P.M.

700 years after it was hidden, The Master Lifenstone awakes. The present-day Tara is tasked with overcoming great danger to retrieve the gem before it causes major damage to both Sidhera and Eirlandia. As Tara the Second navigates the dangers of The Forbidden World to be reunited with her predecessor’s Master Lifenstone, Maeve must step into the role of temporary regent of Eirlandia, facing her own set of dangers stemming from political intrigue and the continued uncertainty of the state of affairs regarding the Formorrid.

Join us on Saturday afternoon, November 7th, as we welcome Mariclaire Norton back to The Printed Garden to sign copies of the second book in her Eirlandia fantasy series!  We'll have copies of both of Mariclaire's books for sale, and she'll be here from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. to talk about them and sign copies!  This event is free and open to the public!

REMEMBERING

ALAN BRADLEY
​1938-2026

MARJANE SATRAPI
​1969-2026

OPEN MIC W/O A MIC 
  POETRY NIGHT
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH
7:00 P.M.

Moon in the Rye Press is a mobile micro-press project introduced by Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore designed to highlight and support literary creativity and community across Utah. This initiative collaborates with writers, students, educators, printmakers, and writing groups to publish micro-editions of chapbooks, broadsides, and other literary works, creating a unique platform for the diverse voices of Utah.  We're proud to host four Moon in the Rye poets to The Printed Garden for our Fall 2026 Open Mic W/O a Mic Poetry Night!

Anya Horman's Every Hair a Lightning Rod explored the relationship between human beings, the natural world, and the divine, and meditates specifically on navigating motherhood, her own mother's traumatic brain injury, and her concern about the longevity of the Great Salt Lake.

Sean Dallas Stradly's Fragile House uses home as an anchor, and a metaphor for stability, connection, and the navigation of everyday life, touching on concepts of dilapidation, rebuilding, and coexistence with the natural world.

Anathema comes from a Greek word denoting something offered up for divine use or holy sacrifice. But in The Bible the word “anathema” is a synonym for "accursed," "reviled," or even "excommunicated." Joe's chapbook swells from this confluence of sacredness and profanity to embody the struggle away from an angry and disillusioned apostasy and toward a mature and resilient hope outside of faith.

Amanda Kay Burr's Birth uses lyric storytelling that bears witness to surviving a mental health crisis and social vulnerability to emerge altered, yet alive and unmistakably oneself.

Each of our guest poets will read his or her work for fifteen minutes, followed by an hour of open stage where any guest is welcome to share his or her own work or the work of other loved poets.  All four collections will be available for sale and signing.  This event is free, open to the public, and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR
T.I.M.
​WIRKUS
SATURDAY, NOV. 7TH
7:00 P.M.

It’s 1908, and itinerant spirit medium Madame Ilsa von Hoffmann is at the end of her professional rope, facing down two unappealing options: join an ill-conceived commune founded by some fellow trans ex-vaudevillians, or take on a high-paying but mysterious job offered by a religious extremist in Salt Lake City. Madame Ilsa opts for Utah and the employ of one Roger Marsh who, it turns out, wants her to summon the ghost of Joseph Smith, Mormonism’s founder, to give his blessing to Marsh’s fledgling offshoot of the mainstream church.
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Unsure how she’ll pull off this near-impossible task, Ilsa finds an ally in Francie Bream, an East Coast journalist in town to profile Mormon women at the dawn of the twentieth century. Bream’s motives remain obscure to Ilsa, though she begins to suspect the journalist has an agenda far more sinister than she could have imagined. Complicating the situation further are an inept and volatile henchman, a relentlessly orthodox Mormon apostle, a copper magnate with a fetish for polygamists, Marsh's rogue third wife, and a vengeful private investigator from Ilsa's past. As dead bodies accumulate around her, Madame Ilsa worries less and less about saving her career, and more about making it out of Salt Lake City alive.

Please join us in welcoming T.I.M. Wirkus to The Printed Garden to read from, answer questions about his new novel, A Bad Deal in Mormon Land.  This event is free, open to the public, and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

ANOTHER MEETING OF AARON'S VERY OCCASIONAL BUT SOMEWHAT ENLIGHTENING
BOOK CLUB
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH
7:00 P.M.

When Meaulnes first arrives in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring, and charisma. But when he attends a strange party at a mysterious house with a beautiful girl hidden inside, he is changed forever. Published here in the first new English translation since 1959, this evocative novel has at its center both a Peter Pan in provincial France-a kid who refuses to grow up-and a Parsifal, pursuing his love to the ends of the earth. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain- Fournier's narrator compellingly carries the reader through this indelible portrait of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence.

Join us on Friday night, October 9th, for an evening of good company, some good snacks, and a discussion of this early 20th Century coming-of-age masterpiece of French Literature.  We'll have copies of The Lost Estate on display and for sale in the store, but purchase is not necessary to attend.  This event is free, open to the public, and will begin just after 7:00 p.m.
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BOOK SIGNING WITH AUTHOR
MARC J.
GREGSON
NEW DATE PENDING
7:00 P.M.

A breakneck dystopian thriller from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Marc J. Gregson
When he was just fourteen years old, Malcolm Jennings was conscripted by a corporation who got him addicted to rage-inducing drugs and turned into one of their disposable child soldiers. 

But Malcolm isn't a child anymore.  He's the ultimate survivor--and now also a relentless, unstoppable killer, tested by years of battle in a pollution-ravaged Earth. That makes him the top target for the eco-activists who are fighting corporate rule ... but they don't want to stop him. They want to recruit him.
Eager for revenge against those who stole his life, Malcolm and his new allies infiltrate the reigning authority's twisted business school--a 1920s mob-era simulacrum where the next generation of ruthless executives are groomed to out-gangster each other in an all-out crime war, and the stakes could not be higher.  For Malcolm, it's his only chance at payback. For everyone else, it may be their only chance to save the world outside.

We couldn't be more excited to welcome New York Times bestselling author Marc Gregson back to The Printed Garden to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of his new breakneck dystopian thriller!  This event is free, open to the public, and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

REMEMBERING

DAN SIMMONS
​1948-2026

​​ANNIE DILLARD
​1945-2026

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COLSON WHITEHEAD (AND RAY CARNEY) ARE BACK ON JULY 21ST!

COOL MACHINE
BY COLSON WHITEHEAD

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy

1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture’s Dealer of the Month. When the banks won’t give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.

1983. To some, Carney’s friend and partner in crime, Pepper, is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he’s feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he’s plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you’re uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence—Pepper is a native speaker.

​1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie’s death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie’s son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he’s spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.

With his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.

“Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his recurring characters grapple with the ways their lives are defined by crime and the city they call home. . . . The heists, stakeouts, and showdowns are rendered with grit and precision, but the real wallops come in breathtaking riffs on the city’s magnetic force. . . . It’s the greatest New York novel in years.”        —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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