Across the street from Voodoo Donuts in downtown Portland sits a can’t-miss-it wall painting that reads: “KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD.” I’ve heard it claimed that Austin,

When I was a teenager I read The Catcher in the Rye.  I also read Catch-22, Calvin and Hobbes comics, wore Chuck Taylors, and listened

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

No one is ever ready.

“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books – setting out in five hundred pages an idea that