There has been quite a bit of traffic over the past few days to A Motley Vision as a result of internet searches for “The Fireside Song.” I wrote about it back in September. In addition, a couple of people have e-mailed me asking where they could get a hold of a copy of the [...]

Over at Times & Seasons, Kaimi Wenger has posted an interesting discussion of “Ender’s Game as Mormon literature.”
I won’t repeat what I’ve already said over there. But I thought I’d take the opportunity to point to a few resources for those interested in Orson Scott Card’s work and Ender’s Game in particular.
1. The idea [...]

Remember my post on Mormon-themed novels that came about as part of National Novel Writing Month? Well, Lake Mountain Media has decided to issue a write-a-novel-in-a-month challenge specifically to Mormon writers (hat tip to Marny Parkin and Thom Duncan of the AML List).
The target is 50,000 words during the month of January. As [...]

Greg Call of Times & Seasons alerted me more than a month ago to an interview that Mormon fiction writer Brian Evenson did with Mormon visual artist Lane Twitchell for the February 2004 edition of the Brooklyn Rail.
So this is way late, but you know, that’s why it’s ‘Criticism’ instead of ‘News.’
A quick primer:
Brian Evenson [...]

I realize that as a card-carrying member of the liteary elite it is my solemn (is there any other kind?) duty to sneer at those who particiapate in National Novel Writing Month. After all these people are writing novels, and they’ve never even been accepted in to a creative writing program.
But at the rick of [...]

The Morris family made a trip to Costco last Saturday. After scoring some great samples and stocking up on our poultry needs (my wife doesn’t eat red meat), we meandered toward the books/CDs/DVDs/games section and what should appear on the books table but the Doubleday version of the Book of Mormon. There they were — [...]