Comments on: “Long After Dark” by Todd Robert Petersen

By: Weekend (Re)Visitor: “Family History” | A Motley Vision

Weekend (Re)Visitor: “Family History” | A Motley Vision — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:10:40 +0000

[...] I could read in a day, but wasn’t a short story. There’s also that I didn’t write much about it when I reviewed the collection back in [...]

By: Stucki’s Hands and the Masculine Identity: a review of Todd Robert Petersen’s Rift | A Motley Vision

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:21:45 +0000

[...] Angle” which, of all the stories in Petersen’s collection Long After Dark, meets William Morris’s praise that Petersen is a “Mormon author who seems to be aware of and grappled with and absorbed [...]

By: Th.

Th. — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:20:55 +0000

Seriously. Snap it up.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:20:05 +0000

Oh, also? Long After Dark is on sale!

By: MoJo

MoJo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:19:20 +0000

Luisa, so glad to be of assistance!!! *big evil grin*

By: Luisa Perkins

Luisa Perkins — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:22:47 +0000

Crud. Y’all are killing my book budget. I’ve already bought both of Eugene’s books, the fob bible, and MoJo’s novel since beginning my visits here.

It’s a rueful, but happy situation; I’m not really complaining.

By: Theric Jepson

Theric Jepson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:37:59 +0000

Incidentally, I have major problems with the forward. If I hadn’t already purchased it, that forward would have stopped me from buying the book. A book, I might add, that’s probably the single best short-story collection of any description that I’ve ever read.

By: A Motley Vision » Why Mormons should embrace the novella

A Motley Vision » Why Mormons should embrace the novella — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:49:12 +0000

[...] I mentioned this idea briefly in my review of “Long After Dark,” and then tried to go find where I had posted on it before. I could have sworn that I wrote something in the early days of AMV or perhaps on the AML-list, but I haven’t found anything and this could be yet another of those blog posts that I wrote notes on, but then never typed up (I often write my posts by hand during my long commutes on public transportation). I can’t find the notes either. [...]

By: William Morris

William Morris — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:59:22 +0000

You’re not being a nuisance. I just haven’t taken the time to check them out, C.L.

By: C. L. Hanson

C. L. Hanson — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:27:05 +0000

I should add this one to my reading list because I like novellas and I’ve enjoyed some others of Zarahemla’s offerings.

Speaking of novellas (and particularly of serializing them) the stories I’ve been serializing on my site are a series of LDS-interest novellas.

I’m not trying to be a nuisance by mentioning this. If you guys don’t think these stories are Mormon literature (or if you don’t think they’re literature at all ;) ), that’s okay — this is just an FYI since you and Stephen Carver specifically mentioned that you were looking for examples of this genre.

Some of the novellas in my series take place entirely within a Mormon (not apostate) context, portraying the Mormon experience as complex and challenging, not dismissing Mormon ideals as wrong. If you’re curious, you can see my site (linked to my name) where there is info on how to contact me.