Tag Archives: Negative elements in Mormon literature

Unintended Consequence—Loss of the “Safe” Genre

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Scott Parkin

Since YA is becoming increasingly less “safe,” what replaces it for those readers who consider aesthetic safety as their first filter for book selection? Continue reading →

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Sujfan Stevens and a Few Thoughts on Mormon Art

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Margaret Blair Young

(Cross posted on Bycommonconsent.com) We should have known that anyone who could write a melodic, lyrical ballad about a serial killer (John Wayne Gacy) still had some secrets and mysteries to explore. In fact, he announced just that in the … Continue reading →

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I Am Jane (with a little Levinas)

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Margaret Blair Young

I wrote the play I Am Jane a decade ago, and we had our premiere performance in an LDS chapel for the Genesis Group meeting. We turned the sacrament table into a deathbed and the choir seats into a pioneer camp. … Continue reading →

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Death Be Not Proud

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Margaret Blair Young

I am in London, and will be until July. The week before I left, the editor of a documentary I helped make was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Two days after I arrived in London, I learned that a … Continue reading →

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What Offends the Mormon Reader?

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Angela Hallstrom

In an earlier post here at the AML Blog (and again during a panel discussion at last weekend’s AML Conference) Chris Bigelow admitted that even though Seagull Book had requested ordering information on the anthology I edited, Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction, … Continue reading →

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