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Almost a year after Cracroft’s review of Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems was published, Bruce W. Jorgensen, also a faculty member in BYU’s English Department, responded with To Tell and Hear Stories: Let the Stranger Say. Jorgensen, who had been serving as president of the Association for Mormon Letters (presidents usually serve [...]

By now, most AMV readers have heard that the documentary on New York Dolls bassist and Mormon convert Arthur Kane that I asked about last July is by an LDS filmmaker and screened at Sundance. Coverage has appeared in the Deseret News, and elsewhere.
But I did find something that may be new for you all. [...]

In an earlier post, I mentioned that I would discuss the Mormon Literaturstreit. For those unfamiliar with the term — Literaturstreit is one of those wonderful German creations that precisely and pointedly describes a phenomenon. In this case you take the word ‘Streit’ — which means fight, quarrel, dispute, argument, etc. — and pair it [...]

CBS News.com has posted a glowing preview of the innovative game Advent Rising, which was written by LDS author Orson Scott Card and has a soundtrack by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
According to Game Core columnists William Vitka and Chad Chamberlain, “if you could combine the RPG (Role Playing Game) elements of KOTOR (Knights of the [...]

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve made a couple of small changes to AMV. I moved the syndication buttons to the top of the blog. And, really, if you aren’t subscribed to my site feed, you should be. As much as I’d like to promise daily content, the reality is that I average [...]

Finally getting back into the swing of things…
[Okay -- not really the swing of things as this goes back to late December, but...]
My assertion that the “world needs more Mormon novels” made in the post on MoNoWriMo generated two interesting responses.
Mark Hansen posts over at Mo’ Boy Blog that his initial response was skeptical, but [...]

Today I begin a two-week stint as a guest blogger at Times & Seasons. There’s at least one post I need to make here at AMV very soon, but other than that it’s quite likely that blogging will be light to non-existent here — unless there is breaking news.
I had planned on branching out a [...]