Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
Back when I still taught in Salt Lake, a Navajo student approached me after class one day to get an absence excused. She’d had to
Lost amidst all of the furor of the purported blasphemy of the tongue-in-cheek religious horror/comedy The Wednesday Night Bible Study Club is just how one-the-nose
[Presented before the Association of Mormon Letters at the UC-Berkeley LDS Institute of Religion, 29 March 2019] “Mark Z. Danielewski was born in New York City and
(A transcript of a real-life conversation in Rexburg, ID from the Kim Clark era, who was noted for opening every Tuesday Devotional with…) It’s another
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books – setting out in five hundred pages an idea that
Bodies—unnumbered—sleep in starry tombs (discs of fire beheath their heads).
Among the many missed opportunities of the 1998 cult Sundance flick SLC Punk is its failure to acknowledge just how omnipresent Punk and its discontents
Ever since Wordsworth’s 1804 “But trailing clouds of glory do we come/From God, who is our home” entered the LDS cultural consciousness via Conference talks
On my mission in Puerto Rico, I had a companion who was an ex-pothead. To be clear, he never bragged about it or anything;
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