The Association for Mormon Letters in conjunction with the Religious Studies Program at UVSC has issued a call for papers to be presented at its annual conference to be held on April 7, 2007, at UVSC in Orem, Utah. The theme of this year’s conference will be children’s and young adult literature, but papers on other topics [...]
Editor’s note: The following post was written by frequent AMV commenter Preston McConkie. His viewpoints do not necessarily represent those of individual AMV bloggers or AMV as a whole. ~Wm
Serious authors tend to be dignified people. There’s a reason this forum largely ignores Richard Paul Evans as an author, and I suspect it’s because [...]
There were a number of quality films at the LDS Film Festival. However, there were a few that weren’t quite ready for a screening, but were coming soon on the horizon.
PASSAGE TO ZARAHEMLA: I heard Chris Heimerdinger speak (author of the popular “Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites” Series) about his new film “Tennis Shoes Among [...]
For those who want to see the kind of contracts that big time authors end up with will probably want to see this. Because of a lawsuit, OJ Simpson’s authors contract for his recent book, signed with HarperCollins, is available online.
The question of the future of Mormon Cinema has been bandied about by many groups, publications and forums lately. Its very survival (at least for the time being) has seemed in question. This past Saturday I had the great pleasure of attending the sixth annual LDS Film Festival at the Scera Theater in Orem, Utah. [...]
Disclaimer: I am not a practiced reviewer. This review slants heavily toward my own interests and biases and is meant as a personal response to the material at hand rather than as a professional grade commentary. And if that, dear reader, isn’t enough to cast doubt upon my objectivity, I have work published in this issue. With all that in mind, then…
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“Except for two or three older writers, all modern literature seems to me not literature but some sort of handicraft, which exists only so as to be encouraged, though one is reluctant to use its products. Even the best products of handicraft cannot be called remarkable and cannot be praised without a ‘but.’”
Fires of the Mind was produced in the Margetts Arena Theatre, BYU, in November, 1974. It was a play I hadn’t even heard of until Eric Samuelsen (BYU’s Playwriting professor) suggested it to me as a possibility for a Mormon Theater Anthology I’m editing for Zarahemla Books.
A few weeks ago I was surfing Portuguese-language LDS sites in Brazil, and I discovered a website with a translation of an essay by a well-known LDS academic that was first published in the early 1980s. Great news, huh! Let’s get these texts out to those who need them.
Problem is, I have a contract to [...]
Here’s my rough and dirty antitrust law analysis of the situation.
Be still when you’ve got nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. Cicero
Why is the word “passion” so difficult for us? For as the two quotes above suggest, the intellectual jury [...]