Dispensation: An Enthusiastic Review
Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction Edited by Angela Hallstrom Introduction by Margaret Blair Young Zarahemla Books, 2010 A confession: before I read Angela Hallstrom’s debut novel in 2008, I didn’t care much about LDS fiction. To me, that genre meant Jack Weyland and Gerald Lund and Anita Stansfield–overtly inspirational stories of mediocre literary quality that barely skim [...]
Whitney Award Predictions
In the spirit of all those Oscar articles right before the big night, I’d like to offer a few Whitney Award predictions. I had a great time being on the Whitney Academy this year. I have read all the finalists, and I was tickled to discover some fabulous writing that I would not have looked [...]








