Don’t just show up for Terryl Givens (and who is going?)
The annual meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters will take place 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at the library at Utah Valley University in Orem. Attendance is free — although if you want to attend...
View ArticleMy 2009 Mormon Literature Wish List
For those of you keeping track: this year I read sixty-eight books (if you don’t include the Calvin and Hobbes and Fox Trot compilations I skim while brushing my teeth and the countless picture books...
View ArticlePreannouncement: The Monsters & Mormons Anthology
UPDATE: Call for Submissions As Terryl Givens documents in The Viper on the Hearth (Amazon), from Zane Grey to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mormons served as stock villains in the early days of genre...
View ArticleMonsters & Mormons: September update
Things are happening here at Monsters & Mormons headquarters. A quick update: 1. The manuscript is complete, is being copyedited and will soon be ready for layout. Our authors did an excellent job...
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Review: With a Title Like _Monsters & Mormons_, How Could You Not Have Fun?,...
It’s taking me a while to get through Monsters & Mormons, not because it’s not super enjoyable (because it is!), but because it’s a pretty long book (which, to me, is no flaw. The upcoming Saints...
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Five Questions for Terryl L. Givens
One of the perks of being review editor for Irreantum is receiving unexpected review copies in the mail. Some weeks ago, I opened the mailbox to find the new edition of Terryl L. Givens The Viper on...
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Big Table Mormonism: A Response to Joanna Brooks’ _The Book of Mormon Girl_
Note: My talented wife, Anne Marie Ogden Stewart, previously wrote an insightful review about The Book of Mormon Girl. This piece is meant to be a companion piece to that one, so I recommend you read...
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Nothing Can Separate Us From the Love of God: An Interview with Fiona Givens,...
Fiona Givens I have been super impressed with both Fiona and Terryl Givens, authors of the masterful (it’s not hyperbole, it’s that good!) theological work The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism...
View ArticleA Rhetorical Review of The God Who Weeps
Givens, Terryl and Fiona. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life. Salt Lake City: Ensign Peak (an imprint of Deseret Book), 2012. 160 pages. $19.99 in hardback, $11.49 Kindle. Reviewed by...
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An embarrassment of riches
. Wish you were here. Saturday, the GTU sponsored the Mormonism and Asia conference (plenary session and concluding meet-and-greet at the Berkeley Institute. Here’s an excerpt from the flyer: I was...
View ArticleA Personal and Rhetorical Review of The Crucible of Doubt
Givens, Terryl and Fiona. The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Question for Faith. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014. 168 pages. $19.99 in hardback, $11.99 Kindle. Reviewed by Jonathan Langford....
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