An excerpt from The Island of Bali is Littered with Prayers
Last week Mormon Artists Group announced the availability of a fine edition version of BYU Assistant Professor of Music Jeremy Grimshaw’s The Island of Bali is Littered with Prayers, an account of his...
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The BYU MFA: An interview with Stephen B Tuttle of the new creative-writing...
Stephen B Tuttle is a writer of fiction whose short stories Amanuensis and The Weather Here I am happy to recommend. After finishing his MFA and PhD in creative writing at Utah, he became what he is...
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The BYU MFA: An interview with Stephen B Tuttle of the new creative-writing...
Stephen B Tuttle is a participant professor in BYU’s new MFA for creative writing. The first half of this interview posted August 5. Do you worry about the MFA bubble that was written about in I think...
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Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: The MIA “Dramatic Clubs”
I’ve written before about the once great status of Mormon theatre, and the infrastructure it once enjoyed. So I was pleased to find comments about the beginning of this infrastructure from Horace G....
View ArticleIs the Demand for Mormon Literature Classes Increasing?
I’ve been following Margaret Young’s plans to teach the “Literature of the Latter-day Saints” class at BYU this coming semester, and I was pleased to see that she has posted her reading list for the...
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Alfred Osmond and Mormon Literary Society at BYU in the 1930s
One element often overlooked in literary history is the society at a given point in time and the relationships among participants in literature and the arts. Too often we reduce literary history to...
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Needing an Editor: a Review of Alfred Osmond’s Married Sweethearts
I think someone should read this old stuff and find out if it is any good. There is a kind of “lost” Mormon literature, hundreds of works published before the 1970s that today even most of us who study...
View ArticleMormon literary criticism’s chicken and egg problem
After Scott Hales post here at AMV responding to Michael Austin’s survey of the current state of Mormon literary criticism at the Mormon Studies Review, the two scholars engaged in a back and forth...
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“Sometimes in the arena you look really stupid.” a report from the Studio C...
. Note: don’t forget your Saturday deadline! . It’s just down the 880 from me, but somehow I’ve never heard of the Silicon Valley Comic Con and so I didn’t know this was happening: And because I...
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We Came to Earth to Fail the deluxe Studio C fireside recap
. Having two new visitors swing by AMV to engage on a single post doesn’t happen as much as it used to. And so their desire for more of my notes regarding the Studio C fireside seem worth heeding. That...
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