[…] is an actual scroll, written by the hand of the Lord of Greatness, Alma Rishaia Zuta, 72. Writing is one of the Ten Treasures of the Creation, Pesachim, Fol. 54a. The heavenly books are […]
Some have suggested that the most successful writing about the Mormon experience in the nineteenth-century comes from the frail and fading pages of the personal accounts recorded by first generation Mormons. From the first […]
[…] is perhaps in his daily life no greater mythomaniac than most people, but at the moment of writing he believes in his fiction totally and absolutely. Herein lies also one of the main reasons […]
[…] would end up studying economic history, growing up in Idaho would later serve him well in the writing of Mormon and western history, for much of his work would derive from the rural, agrarian […]
[…] those lives appear so uncomplicated and so unlike our own. Roland Barthes writes about two kinds of writing in the world (1982, 185-93). One, self-absorbed and literary, which for this very reason provokes us, […]
[…] Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996. 3-20, 21-27, 29-33, 35-55, 157-65, 167-74, 175-86, 187-96, 197-200. Carolyn Heilbrun, Writing a Woman’s Life (1988; reprinted, New York: Ballantine, 1989), 91. Her remark provoked an intermittent ongoing […]
[…] like this review to read something like a personal essay. So I’ll start with something personal. I’m writing this review for two important reasons, one noble, and the other less so: First, Gene was […]
[…] asking you until now. I appreciate your effort to become so well acquainted with our religion before writing about it. Recently I read pages 126 to 128 of your book to one of the […]
[…] always a risky venture, yet at the very least it could be argued that familiarity with Dick’s writing could have strengthened, expanded, or even provided a respectable framework and defense for Mormonism’s developing materialism. […]
[…] Porter,” Dictionary of National Biography 1885–1900, vol. 46 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Porter,_Jane. Porter, Thaddeus, 249. Thomas McLean, “The Costs of Women’s Writing: On Devoney Looser’s Sister Novelists,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-costs-of-womens-writing-on-devoney-loosers-sister-novelists/. Porter, Thaddeus, […]