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Humor in Mormon Literature with Theric Jepson and Stephen Carter

November 17, 2023

In this episode of Dialogue Book Report, Andrew talks to Theric Jepson and Stephen Carter about humor among the Mormons, specifically in Jepson’s collegiate novels Byuck and the newly released Just Julie’s Fine. Theric Jepson is a former president of the Association for Mormon Letters, the current editor of Irreantum, and the author of such things as Byuck, Just Julie’s Fine, and The Prophetess of Mars, and the editor of Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology. Find him online by looking for thmazing and clicking anything that comes up.Stephen Carter is the author of Virginia Sorensen, Pioneering Mormon Author and is the editor of Sunstone, a position he has held since 2008. He is the author of the essay collection What of the Night?, co-author of the iPlates series of Book of Mormon graphic novels, and editor of the multi-author anthology Moth & Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death, each of which won an award from the Association for Mormon Letters.