AMV Sister Blogs

Monsters & Mormons Anthology

Mormon Arts feed

Categories

Archives

Tonight in Provo

9.16.10

.
Tonight in Provo, New Play Project begins a series of shows featuring five of their most popular plays:
“A Burning in the Bosom,” by Melissa Leilani Larson
“Foxgloves,” by Matthew Greene
“Gaia,” by Eric Samuelsen
“Adam and Eve,” by Davey Morrison
“Prodigal Son,” by James Goldberg
I have a vested interest in these revivals as I helped publish, through Peculiar Pages, [...]

My take on Out of the Mount: 19 From New Play Project

8.18.10

So we have Peculiar Pages, which is Theric Jepson’s imprint. We have MoJo’s B10 Mediaworx, an indie publisher known for creating e-books that look great. And we have New Play Project, which has put together an impressive track record of productions over its (relatively) short history. Put that all together and you get Out of [...]

Why my not liking “Blood Work” means you should buy Dispensation

4.19.10

.
If you know anything about Angela Hallstrom, you should know that she is a person of taste and a keen parser of literariness.
And if you followed my Twitter reviews of her new short story collection (archived here–scroll up for the key), then you know that I did not feel equally positive about every story she collected. [...]

The Tragic Tell of Mormon Morality: Part I

9.04.08

The Tragic Tell of Mormon Morality: Exposing the Achilles’ Heel of Jerry Johnston’s Commodified Theology, or An Ethics of Latter-day Saint Reading—Part I
(The title’s a mouthful, I know.)
This is the first post in a five or six part series (to run on Thursdays) that explores the ethics of Latter-day Saint literature and criticism. Working within [...]