Call For Papers: The Association for Mormon Letters announces that our Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, February 28th on the campus of Utah Valley University. The theme of the Meeting is “Proving Contraries: the power of paradox in Mormon literature and film.” We welcome all submissions. Please submit a short (2 to 3 [...]
The following is an excerpt from “Going Mainstream: Chaim Potok as a Model for Mormon Literature,” by Elizabeth K. M. Busby, published in the most recent issue of Irreantum. After reading Busby’s essay, I’d like to hear your thoughts on the following: Can a Mormon author write an unapologetically Mormon story—similar to Potok’s unapologetically Jewish [...]
Provident Loving By Angela W. Schultz I’m not the easiest person to live with. I have lots of good intentions, which I often push too far. Some people might call me downright peculiar—even for a Mormon. I abhor waste. In the summer I collect all the unwanted produce from everyone I know. Yes, including the [...]
Do you watch House M.D.? On the third season’s last DVD there’s a short sequence on how some of the show’s cast and crew got a little jazz band together – Hugh Laurie himself at the piano (and yes, he even plays “Minnie the Moocher” for all those Jeeves and Wooster fans out there). At [...]
I came across this in Andre Gregory’s preface to the screenplay of one of my favorite films My Dinner With Andre. A few weeks ago I had dinner with Twyla Tharp in her kitchen, and we were talking about the problems of the artist, or for that matter the individual, maturing in our society. Why [...]
It’s true: I love me a good sentence. I like plots, stories, characters. Individual words can be a lot of fun, and a kickin’ paragraph does please me. But a really good sentence? Or a few excellent sentences in a row? Write some and I’m yours. You’ve got me.
By Features Editor Shelah Miner I’m the kind of girl who has to psych herself up for a day or two before calling our teenage babysitter. I’m not good at small talk, particularly when I don’t know the person I’m talking to very well. When I became Segullah‘s Features Editor this summer, I worried about [...]
Originally, Mormon Artist was a one-man operation. (Am I allowed to say “originally” here, since the magazine is still very much a newborn? ) For the first two issues I was too foolish to know better and did pretty much everything myself — interviews, photography, transcription, editing, design, PR, etc. — with a few friends [...]
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