In what is perhaps the most significant event of the year for Mormon culture, Deseret Book has purchased both Covenant Communications and Covenant’s sister company, Seagull Books, according to a report today on KSL. The move futher consolidate’s Deseret Book’s position as the both the dominant company in the LDS marketplace, with perhaps as much [...]
So my daughter came home the other day and announced that she and her friends had developed a solution to the difficulties caused by the different holidays they celebrate — just call them all RamaChristmaHanaKwanzakah! Of course, conflating all the major religious holidays that often occur in December may not really be a solution (regardless [...]
Keith “JB” Howick Jr. of WindRiver Publishing Inc. kindly agreed to answer some questions from AMV. WindRiver is one of the new crop of small Mormon presses that have been started in the past few years.
What was the genesis of WindRiver Publishing?
Thanks to an education-oriented family, I graduated from the University of Utah as an [...]
After I mentioned last week that the American Academy of Religion will introduce a Mormon Studies Consultation next year, I learned that this announcement coincides with the launch of two new Mormon Studies programs next year, at Utah State University and at the Claremont Graduate University. If I have this right, they join the Mormon [...]
Reviewing my posts here in the past few months, I realize that I’ve not been very positive about the status of the LDS market. But I recently found an area where I can be positive. I see a glimmer of hope in the recent development of new academic and literary groups and conferences.
The New Play Project is a new non-profit theater group dedicated to performing original work, with an emphasis on Mormon Theater. Founded in April of 2006, since then they have had three ten minute play festivals, each revolving around a specific theme. In August 2006 they premiered with “Love Songs and Negotiations;” in October 2006 [...]
A comment yesterday by JB Howick on my recent post The Internet is killing the LDS Market? made me realize that everyone in the LDS market is faced with one crucial decision: Should I go national?
I subscribe to four literary journals and magazines: Irreantum, Dialogue, Isotope, and Poets and Writers. The reason I picked up Poets and Writers this year is because they offered an outrageously low subscription rate, one I couldn’t pass up. But! When resubscription time rolls around, if I have to sacrifice one or more of my [...]
I dismissed it when I heard it fall from the mouth of a literary-academic type. Simply too epigrammatic to be trusted, I thought. Undaunted by my silent resistance, she elaborated: if artists were capable of contributing to the core of society—if they were cut out to be simply productive—they would be.
The link below is technically a review in Meridian Magazine for TWATG: A House Divided, but most of the article focuses on the seemingly dire fate of Mormon Cinema.
http://www.ldsmag.com/arts/061128glory.html
And, I think we must admit things look dire. Richard Dutcher’s films bombed thus causing him to abandon this love child he created while disowning the Mormon [...]