Bearing Your Sanctimony: Monologues on Dialogue
March 30, 2018[…] my friends would see my name in print and they would marvel. I wrote, in very short order, three articles and two short stories, exhausting every idea I had, and all but one of […]
[…] my friends would see my name in print and they would marvel. I wrote, in very short order, three articles and two short stories, exhausting every idea I had, and all but one of […]
[…] simpering girls, we are also left questioning how any of us could decide not to know in order to keep the evening, the relationship, the life, whatever, so perfect. “It was a perfect night,” […]
[…] cities all along the Front sandbagging streets, sidewalks, driveways, window wells, a mudslide that made a lake over a town. She had gone to sleep several nights thinking of those houses under water, full […]
[…] be a lot of excitement for a small town.” “We could charge admission, Elsie. We’d get rich. Buy a new Ford pickup. People would pay to see him. They could talk to Dad and […]
[…] constantly be in a state of repentance, they must always be willing to ply their minds in order to change them; they must always be willing to assent to the Word. As Christians this […]
One cannot read or write about the Book of Mormon without acknowledging a position with respect to its truth claims. Even to profess no stake in any such claims is to take a position. […]
[…] men were inveterate diarists. This has required them to pick and choose carefully among their experiences in order to create a text that moves smoothly, yet dramatically between its two narrators. To achieve this, […]
[…] I said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger’s was talked over in which I strictly declared that I never deviated from the truth” (38). There is strong […]
March 26, 1996 I am sitting in a hotel suite in Moscow. The airport lost our luggage, so we are going to stay here until they find it. Our total flight time was fifteen […]
Few first novels in Utah in the last three decades have earned the popularity and notoriety of Dancing Naked. When Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner did a “pre-publication” reading from the book at the Writers@Work […]