Excavating Myself
April 25, 2018[…] past trying to find it. It isn’t easy. But that’s all right, because when it comes to writing, difficulties are at the root of the work. Ross Macdonald told me once that when he […]
[…] past trying to find it. It isn’t easy. But that’s all right, because when it comes to writing, difficulties are at the root of the work. Ross Macdonald told me once that when he […]
[…] 1977. ———. Surplus and the Storehouse Principle. Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House, 1977. ———. Who’s Who In Service—A Look At Areas of Service Participation By Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of […]
[…] would have been considered unthinkable. Equally amazing is the number of quality pieces. Although much of the writing comprising “Among the Mormons” is undistinguished, the periodical selections are in general both well written and […]
[…] How to Make a Good Mission Great. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978. Durrant, George D. Get Ready’. Get Called! Go! Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Inc., 1979. Hartshorn, Leon R., comp. Inspirational Missionary […]
[…] obscure, the care with which many of the articles have been written makes their reading worth-while. These writings represent an important and frequently overlooked aspect of the popular perception of Mor mons. Not included […]
[…] churches to meet the spiritual needs of those who abandoned their traditional beliefs for the new faith. Writing as the citizen of a country which had enjoyed a long and vigorous intercourse with the […]
[…] might write detective thrillers, or nihilistic science-fiction, or maybe even pornography; for as James Faulconer once noted, writing is after all a vocation just as plumbing is, and we never seem to bother about […]
[…] the opportunity to do something of consequence, to function in an approved non-ornamental and non-trivial way by writing a novel to arouse the conscience of America. So every novel, no matter how sensationalist, could […]
[…] is a scholastic prize. For $100 a year, some high school senior who had excelled in creative writing or community service could have his name on the graduation program, a nice little article in […]
[…] not expressed itself as to birth control” (Widtsoe to Klinger). Later that year he published an important essay on birth control in the Improvement Era forthrightly entitled “Should Birth Control Be Practiced?” It was […]