Not since Orson Scott Card’s heyday has a Mormon author met with such success as Stephanie Meyer, and not an article is published about her in a national magazine, but it mentions her Mormonism. How has the Twilight phenomenon influenced Mormon culture? How has it affected the way the world at large perceives Mormonism? How [...]
Musings by Lisa Torcasso Downing A year ago, my department head assigned me to teach a sophomore literature class in addition to my regular freshman composition courses. While I didn’t like the idea of building another curriculum, I did look forward to teaching literature. I earnestly began reading the anthology I was provided, but when [...]
We’ve probably all heard it by now. Even I’ve heard it, and I can’t tell Help! from Yellow Submarine. Did you know that before becoming the world’s most enduring pop band, The Beatles were the house band for a strip club in Hamburg, Germany? According to a speech Malcolm Gladwell gave at the AIGA Business [...]
Yesterday I got a call from Julia Duin, the religion editor at the Washington Times. She sounded frantic; apparently a deadline was nipping at her heels. I smiled, remembering my own frenetic years in journalism. For about 20 minutes, she fired questions at me, which I answered the best I could on the spur of [...]
A few months ago I had a bit of time on my hands and wandered into my old haunt, Deseret Industries. In my early 20s, I would bring home a bag of used books on a weekly basis, but on this particular visit, only one book caught my eye: Nick Hornby’s novel How To Be [...]
By Heather O. Followed, quite possibly, by a smack upside my head. Or a swift kick in the heinie. Both of them are warranted.
At 8pm on Tuesday, April 14th, the Howard University PBS station (WHUT) will air Margaret Young and Darius Gray’s documentary Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons. I’ve been interviewing Margaret for an upcoming issue of Segullah, and I know that she’s really excited about one of the nation’s premier historically black universities showing [...]
The following email was recently sent to the AML-list and will be sent to former and current Irreantum subscribers. Dear Irreantum Subscribers (and soon-to-be Irreantum subscribers): There are some changes taking place at Irreantum that we wanted you to be aware of. But first, the Spring 2009 issue of Irreantum is due to ship soon. [...]
I did it, Stephen. I bought Robert McKee’s Story. In hardback, even! This shows how much I trust you. So far I think it’s great. Even though the book’s about screenwriting, it applies marvelously well to fiction of all kinds. One of the sections I found particularly lucid and well-said was a short, three page [...]
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