[…] had published part of it; it was also published serially by the Millennial Star and the Deseret News. Since it was inconveniently scattered in these periodicals, which were virtually unobtainable at the end of […]
[…] generally have zip and vigor, accorded by rock beats and Latin rhythms. The work has a “ today” flavor, with plenty of appeal to the youth of the Church. But today’s sounds become yesterday’s […]
[…] supplies we did not raise ourselves. What would we use for paper? Fresh issues of the Deseret News! This semi-weekly publication was put out by the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. It was […]
[…] very good, but it is not an epic at all. It is instead a series of short stories that are rather closer to William Dean Howells or Sarah Orne Jewett. The resulting tales come […]
[…] I cannot imagine consigning my bones at last to any other spot than that old graveyard. I am being nostalgic, of course. But what strikes me as I remember back is how little nostalgia […]
In its almost-square format, in its design and layout, its good-sized type and sepia toned pictures on stiff, just about grocery-bag-brown paper, Miller and Moffitt’s Provo is easily the most attractive and readable work […]
[…] few places in America is one confronted with such well-rooted prosperity totally void of slums. … I am forced to admit that the average man in the Mormon state enjoys a higher standard of […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
[…] Mama is a Mormon, like us, no7 like Ben maybe, not so much like me, though I am her only daughter, and Ben she didn’t acquire until eight months ago when I wooshed off […]
[…] Phillips and his manuscript. Betenson shakes the historian’s earth, too. She shares with readers a family secret, breaking a family oath to do it, about Butch’s visit with them long after his supposed South […]