Or, what are genres good for? For a long time now, Dialogue has subdivided the prose in each issue into Articles and Essays, Personal Voices, and Fiction. These divisions are strained by current submissions.
The Association for Mormon Letters has two big announcements: a call for papers for next year’s Annual Meeting, and the birth of a new AML blog. Call For Papers The Association for Mormon Letters announces that our Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, February 27th on the campus of Utah Valley University. The theme [...]
Announcing the Tenth Annual Mormon Studies Conference at UVU, this Thurs. and Fri.
Musings by Lisa Torcasso Downing From the October 6, 2009 New York Times (by way of the AML-list): In an ingenious spin on the co-author strategy, Stephenie Meyer, who wrote the Twilight novels, said that her vampire hero appeared in a dream and then dictated the first book as fast as she could type. He [...]
Musings by Lisa Torcasso Downing I am making my way through the Carter-touted Story Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee and have met some challenging ideas. I’d thought I’d run one up the flagpole. Early in the book, McKee discusses his take on the decline of the storytelling craft. He [...]
By Heather O., Segullah Editorial Board The other day, I unexpectedly had an hour of free time (I know, it never happens to me either. I wish I knew what stars had aligned so I could do it again). Of course I headed to Barnes and Noble. I spent some time greeting old friends on [...]
by Features Editor Shelah Miner I’ve had a very grumpy weekend. My husband was on call, which never does much for my mood, and I’m feeling the crunch of all the things that need to be done before school starts next week (but not the accompanying motivation to actually hit the mall and Target and [...]
We are moving, again. The easiest, and the hardest things to pack are the books. Here’s this year’s tally: 3 boxes Dialogue 1 box JMH, BYU Studies 1 box Mormon women’s history 1 box cultural studies, critical theory 1 box lit crit. 1 box poetry, English 1 box poetry, German 1 box essay collections 1 [...]
You know how, all winter long, amidst the work deadlines and kids’ basketball games and the demands of prime time television, you told yourself you were planning to use your summer to deplete the stack of must-read novels waiting on your nightstand? Did you have an image of yourself stretched out on a beach (or [...]
A few weeks ago my summer fiction issue of The New Yorker came in the mail, and among all the (ahem) “New Yorker Style Stories,” I found Louis Menard’s essay “Show or Tell,” an extended rumination on American creative writing programs and a review of Marc McGurl’s new book, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and [...]
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