See the Salt Lake Tribune story here. Very bad news: film prints were apparently destroyed.

How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer
wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hill towns.
How much better to cruise these local, familiar streets,
fully grasping the meaning of every road sign and billboard
and all the sudden hand gestures of my compatriots.
Those five lines, the first stanza of Billy Collins’ poem “Consolation,” introduce [...]

The Association from Mormon Letters has posted the list of 2005 AML award winners. Congratulations to all the winners.
I especially enjoyed the winners for film — “New York Doll” by Greg Whitely — and novel — Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Two very different works, but are infused with a way of capturing and exploring the [...]

And that’s pretty much all of us (and it should be, I think, but how it should be is open for discussion).
I’ve begun reading Wayne Booth’s “The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction.” It’s much too early for me to have much of an opinion of the work, or even for me to engage [...]

I noticed a couple of sidenotes that Kaimi posted over at T&S directed towards a new blog called, “Six LDS Writers and A Frog.” I thought it’d be worth mentioning over here as I think it would be of interest to anyone who reads AMV.
It looks like a good blog. I haven’t read any of [...]

The Mormon canon, our scriptures, are either the bedrock of the Mormon literary canon (assuming there is such a thing) or something else—texts that stand apart and serve as both sources and standards for the rest. We are commanded to read the scriptures. In doing so, there is a temptation (I know it well) to [...]

. . . and hopefully a little fun. It’s been a rough week at Casa Karamesines, with illness ruling the household and PGK’s disabled daughter requiring much care day and night, and when PGK has a hard week she likes to put up something on AMV she enjoys doing, something that lightens her mind.

This [...]

After having directed three consecutively worse comedies, the real question one has going into Kurt Hale’s fourth LDS comedy is just how bad is it? Suprisingly, it’s not that bad. In fact, I’m willing to say it’s actually his best. It’s a major upswing from The Home Teachers, at least. It was also much better [...]

My sister Katherine was kind enough to write up her notes and impressions on the “Youth Literature” panel at the 2006 annual meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters:
The panel included Chris Crowe, John Bennion, Shanna Butler, Dean Hughes, and AnnDee Ellis, with Laura Card moderating.
Laura Card began the discussion by asking the question, “How [...]

BYU’s Publication Lab is sponsoring Publication Week March 13-17. Two events of interest that are open to the general public:
The Publisher’s Fair is being held from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, at the Wilkinson Center (in the Garden Court) on Tuesday. Most of the larger (and many of the smaller) LDS publishing companies [...]

I am a recovering humanities nerd, a former English major who exclusively pursued unmarketable knowledge until the day I applied to law school. That decision—law school—felt like giving up on becoming a writer, but it was the culmination of an honest assessment of what I lacked. A wealthy patron, for example.

We are incredibly pleased to announce that Shawn P. Bailey has joined A Motley Vision.
Shawn is a lawyer, fiction and poetry writer, Bloggernacle commenter and AML-List participant, in other words, a natural fit for AMV and the Bloggernacle.
Shawn is also a 2005 Irreantum short fiction contest winner — he took second place (and $175) with [...]

The only Wayne Booth I’ve ever read was A Rhetoric of Irony, and that years ago, yet this session honoring his life and his work impressed me deeply. The presenters, Rick Duerden and Neal Kramer, with Bruce Jorgensen chairing the session, brought their love, their respect, and their gratitude for their subject to the table, [...]

Eric has given a nice overview of the conference; I’m going to concentrate on two sessions I took notes on.
The Plenary Session was titled, “Looking Back: Memorable Moments in Mormon Literature.” Presenters included Richard Cracroft, Thomas Rogers, Margaret Blair Young, and Susan Howe. Laraine Wilkins, editor of Irreantum, chaired this spirited discussion of Mormon literature’s [...]

Captivated and engrossed in following the words of each speaker, I ended up taking very poor notes. I write, then, mostly from memory – apologies if I mischaracterize anything anyone said.