The Red Brick Store » Darin Cozzens http://theredbrickstore.com A collaboration amongst Mormon-related magazine and journal editors. Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:24:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Irreantum’s Coming to a Mailbox Near You! http://theredbrickstore.com/irreantum/irreantums-coming-to-a-mailbox-near-you/ http://theredbrickstore.com/irreantum/irreantums-coming-to-a-mailbox-near-you/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:45:38 +0000 Angela Hallstrom http://theredbrickstore.com/?p=121 It’s almost time for the newest issue of Irreantum to hit the streets. Thwack! Just like that. On the streets! It’s the first issue I’ve officially edited, and I (very humbly) think it’s pretty darn good. This double issue, chock full of over 250 pages of great fiction and poetry and essays and reviews, is one you should own. If you aren’t an Irreantum subscriber or a member of the AML (an Irreantum subscription is included in your AML membership), you can buy the journal for $10. Head over here and electronically plunk down your ten spot. It’ll be worth it, I promise.

If my unabashed begging and bragging hasn’t enticed you, perhaps the table of contents will:

Fiction

Jack Harrell: “Calling and Election”
Wayne Jorgensen: “This Afternoon”
Darin Cozzens: “Reap in Mercy”
Arianne Cope: “Salt Water”
William Morris: “Speculations: Trees”
Kristin Carson: “Gypsy Holiday”
Mark Brown: “Cause”

Critical Essays

Elizabeth Busby: “Going Mainstream: Chaim Potok as a Model for Mormon Literature”
Kylie Nielson Turley: “Wrestling with LDS Motherhood: Josephine Spencer’s Feminist Evolution”

Poetry

Hart Wegner: Leaving; Towers
Darlene Young: Postpartum; How Long
Nani Lii Furse: To Anne Katrine, Ancestor
Tyler Chadwick: Two Poems on Fatherhood; Watching the Sunrise in St. George, Utah; Four Month Rosary
Mark Bennion: Dear Father, Love Abish; Swollen; Coronation Plea

From the Archives

Josephine Spencer: “Little Mother”

Creative Nonfiction

Emily Milner: “Beauty for Ashes”
Darren M. Edwards: “Psalm of a Heretic”

Reviews

Joel Lee: “The Land Eternal: Warren Hatch’s Mapping the Bones of the World“
Doug Gibson: “Hedges and Edges in a Genre-Based Market: Christopher Bigelow’s Kindred Spirits and Eugene Woodbury’s The Path of Dreams“
David G. Pace: “Coffee with Levi Peterson: Levi Peterson’s A Rascal by Nature, a Christian by Yearning“
Lynn Pederson: “A Balance of the Large and Small: Lance Larsen’s In All Their Animal Brilliance“

Art by Maralise Petersen

This issue excites me for lots of reasons. There’s the beautiful, provocative, insightful fiction by some of our very best LDS writers, including Bruce (aka Wayne) Jorgensen, Darin Cozzens, and Jack Harrell. There’s Elizabeth Busby’s incisive essay about Mormon artists’ particular affinity for Chaim Potok, and Kylie Nelson Turley’s exploration of an obscure (and stunning) feminist short story by Josephine Spencer. The story, “Little Mother,” has been reprinted in our “From the Archives” section, and I’m honored that Irreantum is publishing what I believe to be important, but largely forgotten, example of early Mormon literature. Add to this a bunch of great poetry and personal essays and reviews, some beautiful photography by Maralise Peterson, and what do you have? An issue you’ll want to have in your personal library.

Hope you like it.

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