I wanted to give all you lovely “A Motley Vision” folks a heads up on staged readings that Utah Valley State College will be having of three of my plays at their Blackbox Theater. The tentative dates we have set right now are Aug. 24-26 (either that or 25-26 and 28). The three plays that [...]
From the Association for Mormon Letters:
The Association for Mormon Letters is pleased to announce the publication of
its newest issue of Irreantum. The focus topic for this issue is “Film and
Religion.” It includes an essay considering LDS Church filmmaking as
propaganda, four film review essays (including a review by Eric Samuelsen on
the HBO series “Big Love”), and [...]
In 2004 the Entrada Institute in Torrey, Utah offered a creative nonfiction workshop taught by Craig Childs, author of The Secret Knowledge of Water, etc. Craig claimed to have never taught a workshop before. Certainly, he took risks I’d never seen a workshop instructor take.
I may be coming across as a bit of a complainer, with my past criticism of Deseret Book, Self Publishing and the LDS product industry. Instead of criticizing, let me point out an example of cooperation that might serve as a model for others. I believe that by working with each others, artists can achieve [...]
News articles and blog posts elsewhere indicate that Deseret Book and Seagull Book and Tape have agreed to continue negotiations, and Deseret Book has postponed its deadline to August 31st.
Jackson Whitetop, a no-account loafer, lives alone in the home that his grandfather Moroni built. Moroni is no longer with us, but he has a good job in the Compiling Office of the Accounting Section of the Current History Division of the Records Department. After several requests, Moroni gets clearance to pay Jackson a visit [...]
Samuel Wooley Taylor (1907-1997) was a grandson of John Taylor (the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) and one of thirty-six children of John Whittaker Taylor (an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). In the taxonomy of Mormon authors,
I just got off the phone with a Salt Lake Tribune reporter asking questions about Deseret Book’s decision to pull its titles from Seagull Book & Tape. I expect an article tomorrow. But it sounds like neither company is coming clean with exactly what the dispute is all about.
In April of 2004, I went through a life experience. My debut play Farewell To Eden, which had premiered at UVSC, and then had been chosen by the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival’s Festival to be one of ten plays throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii and Guam to compete for a chance at [...]
At night, Woodhouse’s toads congregate at seeps formed from two slow leaks in our front yard water lines like fat tourists at popular foreign spas.
In light of the recent discussion of how to get people more interested in literary fiction, I’ve often wondered what it is about literary fiction or the art film that people are so resistant to in the first place.
I watch as you cross into air
Your first breath swells in your chest
Tiny and red
Your new lungs expell a dulcet yelp
Those with a connection to or interest in Mormon and/or Utah arts and culture are invited to attend a Sunstone Symposium session and submit a short essay to Irreantum in honor of poet Leslie Norris.