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The Cranky Curmudgeon: I Got Nothin’

by: Scott Parkin

Problem is that there really is a lot of meh out there. Not good, not bad, just...meh. Entropy seems to be working. I don't believe in negative reviews, so I won't mention any names (to protect the guilty), but in the end a lot of my recent reading has filled me with a colossal sense of "so what?" Continue reading →

Interview with alternate history author Laura Anderson

by: Eric James Stone

Orson Scott Card has delved into the alternate history genre with his Alvin Maker series and Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. But the former is fantasy (there’s magic in it), and the latter is science fiction (there’s time travel … Continue reading →

Children’s Lit Corner

by: Kathryn Poulter

I love a good guessing game. So for today’s blog entry, I have gathered together some of my favorite children’s books and written their first lines here. See if you can guess which book each quote comes from. 1. “‘Where’s … Continue reading →

This Week in Mormon Literature, May 11, 2013

by: Andrew Hall

The LDStorymakers Conference is going on, with the Whitney Awards to be announced at the Gala dinner tonight. I have lots of Whitney book reviews and wrap-ups. Plan-B Theatre’s 2013-14 season will be dedicated to the work of Eric Samuelsen. … Continue reading →

A Live Reading, the Lit Blitz, and our Master Class Application

by: James Goldberg

Confession: I have mixed feelings about writing as a technology. On the one hand, I’m amazed by how abstract marks on a page or screen can evoke the voice of a person thousands of miles–or years–away. Writing does a wonderful … Continue reading →

Whitney Finalists 2012: Final Thoughts

by: Jessie Christensen

Three months ago I wrote a post with some of my initial thoughts on the 2012 Whitney Award finalists. At the time, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to read 25 books in three months and I wondered … Continue reading →

This Week in Mormon Literature, April 29, 2013

by: Andrew Hall

Sorry to post right after Jonathan, but I have been dragging this around unfinished for over a week, it is time to get this giant hunk of info dumped so I can go to bed. The Whitney Awards ballots are … Continue reading →

A Community of (Mormon) Readers

by: Jonathan Langford

The best conversations are the ones where you get a chance both to share your own views and to rethink them in response to what other people say. That’s the kind of experience I had with my recent AML blog … Continue reading →

in verse # 28 : the pun is meatier than the surd

by: Dennis Clark

Sitting at home alone in bed when I was 13, and unable to go out because I was undergoing the aftermath of rheumatic fever, I entertained myself with old copies of Reader’s Digest.  One of the things I digested thoroughly … Continue reading →

Nephi Anderson at the Annual SASS Conference

by: Scott Hales

Next week, the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies will be holding its annual conference in San Francisco. For this year’s conference, a few of us have put together a panel on Nephi Anderson that focuses on his Scandinavian … Continue reading →

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