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Saul Bellow on Premortality

Thanks for the opportunity to guest-blog here during April. I love what Segullah is doing and expect many more positive encounters. As a contrast with my post last week that was heavily weighted toward an (overly) cynical view of human art, I’ll take a different tack this time. Premortality is one of the aspects of [...]

Is Human Art Merely Relying Upon the Arm of Flesh?

I just got back from my first-ever trip to Europe. Following my wife’s capable, experienced itinerary—man, she kept us moving all day, every day—I spent over a week jamming all my senses with the art of the last millennium in the museums of London and Paris, seeing shows in London’s West End, and just soaking [...]

Which LDS novel would you give a Nonmember

Say you’re sitting on a plane next to a guy who’s reading last year’s winning novel of the Pulitzer for fiction. You get to talking, and he finds out you’re a Mormon. He says, “You know, my best way to understand a different culture is to read a really good, deep, intimate, human novel from [...]

Mormon Literature: Carving Out a Middle Niche?

Chris Bigelow is the author of five books on Mormonism, and he runs a small Mormon press called Zarahemla Books. He cofounded and edited the Mormon literary magazine Irreantum and the satirical Mormon newspaper The Sugar Beet. He is a permablogger at Mormon Matters and also has a personal blog. AND he’s the first person [...]

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