The many misuses of Kafka and insider knowledge
I threw a minor fit on Twitter the other evening over the New York Times article How Nonsense Sharpens the Mind, which reports on a study that claims that experiencing the uncanny, the weird, the...
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ebooks and the self-publishing bubble
A couple of recent articles got me thinking again about the current revolution in ebooks and related subjects. First, the New York Times in The Bookstore’s Last Stand took a look at Barnes and Noble’s...
View ArticleMormons and the story of the West
“The strange thing is that aside from these displays the rest of the museum could almost be an account of the settling of the American West.” — Edward Rothstein in the NY Times. Why, yes. That is very,...
View ArticleMormon Literature: A Sunny Outlook
By now everyone has read Mark Oppenheimer’s article on Mormon literature in the New York Times. Typical in its approach, it highlights Mormon successes in genre fiction and offers a few explanations...
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On becoming the George Clooney of Mormon Lit
. George Clooney, I’m told, uses his star power for good. That is, he makes a blockbuster—say, Ocean’s Thirteen—to keep his box-office mojo shiny, then spends that star capital on getting Burn After...
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