KUER: 11/13/08: Author and Environmentalist Peter Matthiessen (2008-11-12)

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11/13/08: Author and Environmentalist Peter Matthiessen

Doug Fabrizio (2008-11-12)

Peter Matthiessen

SALT LAKE CITY, UT (kuer) - Literary icon Peter Matthiessen is a novelist, a non-fiction writer, an environmental activist and a Zen master. He co-founded The Paris Review and his books include "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" and "Shadow Country." Matthiessen is in Salt Lake City this week, and Thursday he joins Doug to talk about revealing the world through words.

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. Peter Matthiessen and photographer Subhankar Banerjee will be at the Salt Lake City Public Library to talk about their collaboration on the Arctic. Matthiessen will also speak about his work "Shadow Country." For more information, click here or call (801) 581-6214. This event is co-sponsored by The City Library and the University of Utah's College of Humanities

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