Todd Robert Petersen

@toddpetersen

On shelves now: PICNIC IN THE RUINS from . Pater familias. Novelist. Professor of English and Film at Southern Utah University.

Cedar City, Utah
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    6 Oct 2020

    It’s nice to wrap up a film theory lecture on car chases and dubstep only to find something as delightful as this. Thank you, .

    In non-release day, non-award nomination book talk, I have another amazing title to add to my growing list of favorite 2021 releases: PICNIC IN THE RUINS by , out 1/5 from . It's a crime novel, but also one of the funniest books I've read in years.
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  2. 13 hours ago

    👀 Oh, this is very interesting.

    "His brilliant essays bring so much back into focus, while also noting the American surrealism of the American dream. There is not a weak link in this collection.” —Lorrie Moore Lost in Summerland—on shelves this May.
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  3. 13 hours ago

    I am watching Biden’s address, and my son is in the front room playing “Voodoo Chile" on a classical guitar. Not at all like last year.

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  4. Apr 27

    My little boy’s best friend is moving to Australia this week. He is heart broken. This is the goodbye card he picked. I am in one million little pieces right now, everyone. One million little useless pieces.

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  5. Apr 27

    This is so very interesting. I am thinking about gathering some colleagues to read and talk about RANGE this summer. Is anyone interested?

    The #1 bestseller 's "fascinating" () RANGE is now in paperback! 🙌👏 Check out an adapted excerpt of the new afterword in .
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  6. Apr 26

    Hot damn. An article on Questlove’s and the SUMMER OF SOUL documentary is the exactly the Deseret News I need right now.

    To put that into a modern context, it would be the equivalent of two free Coachellas happening in the middle of New York City and no one talking about it. | By
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  7. Apr 26

    This is how fast I am grading tonight. Thanks.

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  8. Apr 26

    I’m not going to dignify this with any amplification—screen capture only. But I do want to say I have had people occasionally suggest that maybe I overstated my case in PICNIC IN THE RUINS. Reader, I did not.

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  9. Apr 25

    Chloé Zhao! Yes!

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  10. Apr 25

    This is a very good question. I asked my mother the same thing as we stood in line to see the King Tut artifacts decades ago. Mother told it to me straight.

    My son at 6:05 today. “Mommy, I have a question. How do museums get all their stuff?”
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  11. Apr 24

    I want to thank for hosting me and earlier this year for the release of our books PICNIC IN THE RUINS and APPROPRIATE. You can still pick up copies of both from this fine establishment.

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  12. Apr 24

    Everyone, is a fixture in Salt Lake City! They have been such a tremendous supporter of me and so many other Utah writers. I wish I lived closer to them, and if I did, I would gobble up so many frequent buyer points.

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  13. Apr 24

    I had the honor of talking with Hardy about my novel, PICNIC IN THE RUINS, an event hosted by in Seattle. Pick up a copy from them, and why stop at one! Liberty wouldn't.

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  14. Apr 24

    I can't thank enough for helping launch my new novel, with back in January. Pick up a copy of PICNIC IN THE RUINS or perhaps pre-order Matt's new one, APPLESEED. Maybe both.

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  15. Apr 24

    Today is . Today I'm going to salute the bookstores that have shown so much love and try to send them some business. These places continue to be islands of delight in a vast sea of blandness.

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  16. Apr 23

    Hey, yah, everybody. I have a video poem about hummingbirds and the Twitters out. It’s part of the . I don’t mention it so much, but my dissertation was a flash fiction/prose poem intersection. It was fun to stretch these wings again. Thank you, Paisley.

    A sweet poem for your spring! "Subteweet," by Todd Petersen. is the author, most recently, of Picnic in the Ruins. He teaches at Southern Utah University. / / /
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  17. Apr 23

    My colleague, Dr. Dib, speaks truth.

    Handling questions in class at the beginning of the semester
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  18. Apr 22

    I hadn’t thought about land theft as it relates to land grant universities. This article gave me a lot of food for thought.

    Something tangible is required to begin the reconciliation process.
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  19. Apr 22

    How about Brooklyn 99 but with middle school teachers?

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  20. Apr 22

    This is a powerful article asking good questions about how to reimagine the national parks and our future.

    Author of THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE writes about the intertwined past, present, and future of national parks and native people for .
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  21. Apr 21

    This is my creative process. I send my agent a cool novel idea and some pages. He asks a few "what if you” questions. I storm around, growling to myself about not being understood, then from the eye of that storm emerges a more evolved and interesting idea. It’s like he knows.

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