From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #405 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Wednesday, July 25 2001 Volume 01 : Number 405 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:52:45 -0700 From: "Jeff Needle" Subject: Re: [AML] Mission of Mormon Letters? Worthy of keeping in the permanent file! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Rex Mitchell" To: Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [AML] Mission of Mormon Letters? > Terry, > > I think the threefold mission of Mormon writers could be described as: > > 1. Exhume the Dead > 2. Stretch the Gospel > 3. Disturb the Perfect Saints > - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:53:03 -0700 From: Terri Reid Subject: RE: [AML] Mission of Mormon Letters? Okay, so if that General Authority said, "Ya, you betcha, (I hang with General Authorities from the Upper Midwest) you go ahead and write those real stories about real people facing real problems." Then what would we do? When I read Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card (except for "Saints"), Charles DeLint, etc... I never know what religion their characters are (unless of course it's the stock Catholic priest.) So, do we write our characters with "hints" of religious beliefs - i.e. Battlestar Galactica and Kolob or perhaps Kenny Kemp - where only the Mormons watching/reading get it? Or do we start infiltrating our fiction with "real" glimpses of Mormon life - - but in a way that it is a part of the character - not a reproduction of an ad for the church? (I think actually that Orson Scott Card did a fairly good job of this with "Saints.") Can the High Priest Group Leader ever take the place of the grizzled Irish Priest in fiction? Could "Family Man" been about an LDS Elder's Quorum president? Could we bring people into this LDS world of ours and have them actually believe us? No one really says "Fudge" and "Dang It." They use how much Jello? What the heck do you use 800 pounds of dried red kidney beans for? Sorry, I just slipped into the Utah Culture thread. ;) Thanks for your throughts! Terri Terri Reid Executive Producer - Midwest Region PIXELight www.itpnow.com - -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Bigelow [SMTP:Chris.Bigelow@UnicityNetwork.com] I've thought along these same lines. Following is how I've posed the questions on a wish-list of questions I would ask Pres. Hinckley or another GA in an interview. [snip] - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:33:23 -0600 From: Barbara Hume Subject: [AML] Query to Eric Snider Eric, I noticed last week that you used terms I'd like you to define a bit, if you don't mind. You wrote of a character's (Sam Neill's Dr. Grant in Jurassic Park 3) "delightful bitterness"--how can something so destructive of the quality of life be delightful? Did you think it made the character more interesting than he was in the first movie? I found him quite interesting. . . . . And you called another movie "darkly funny"--that made me wonder how you would define "dark comedy." It also made me wonder whether I really like dark comedy but just don't know it. In my doctoral dissertation I wrote about Shakespeare's use of looming death as a backdrop to make the comedic elements stand out--maybe I just don't like it when Hollywood does the same thing. BTW, you save me a lot of money. After I read your reviews, I don't want to see any of them--especially the ones you give an "A" to. barbara hume - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:52:14 -0500 From: Ronn Blankenship Subject: Re: [AML] Fiction in Church Mags At 11:15 AM 7/21/01, you wrote: >Back on July 2nd, J. Scott Bronson wrote: > > Too much fiction, apparently, is being quoted as > > doctrine, or near-doctrine from the pulpit. e.g., _Saturday's Warrior_? - --Ronn! :) - --------------------------------------------------------- I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. --Dr. Jerry Pournelle - --------------------------------------------------------- - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:21:46 +1000 From: "Clifford Dubery" Subject: [AML] Mormon Music Publishers I am acting as an agent for a local member of the church and composer musician here in Melbourne Australia. I would like to know if anyone can refer me to a publisher as he has produced an excellent work on the Book of Mormon that we all should have the opportunity to hear. Clifford M Dubery Carrum Downs Victoria Australia "The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved. There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty" John Adams - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:57:23 -0600 From: Christopher Bigelow Subject: [AML] Help AML Contact Colleges The AML is looking for some helpers to get our promotional flyers into the on-campus mail boxes of English dept. faculty and graduate students at some Utah and LDS-oriented universities. We are preparing a mailing about Irreantum, the autumn writers' conference, and the annual meeting coming up in March 2002 and want to get the word out to as many people as possible. Following is a list of institutions we still need contact people for: Westminster College (SLC) Utah State (Logan) Southern Utah (Cedar City) Dixie (St. George) Snow (Ephraim) BYU Hawaii BYU Idaho Southern Virginia University (Are there any we're forgetting? We've already got BYU, UVSC, Weber, SLCC, and U of U covered.) What we would need you to do is: 1) Contact the appropriate dept. secretary and find out if they will put flyers in the faculty and graduate student boxes, and if so how many flyers we should provide and where the bundle should be mailed or delivered to. If possible, you could volunteer to drop off the bundle in person and even stuff the slots yourself, although many secretaries just say, "We'll just take care of it." 2) Tell the AML how many flyers are needed and where they should be mailed (either to you or directly to the dept. secretary), including the correct mailing address. It's not a hard job; it just takes tracking down the right contact person(s) and following up with them and the AML to make sure the flyers get to the right place in the right quantity and make it inside the faculty and graduate boxes. You don't even need to live near the school you volunteer to coordinate with, if you don't mind telephoning them long-distance. If you're willing to volunteer, let us know which school you could help with at irreantum2@cs.com. Thanks, Chris Bigelow - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:49:50 -0700 From: "Jeff Needle" Subject: Re: [AML] UDALL, _The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint_ (Review) This sounds like a wonderful book! Thanks for the review! - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:10:51 -0500 From: Larry Jackson Subject: [AML] re: KSL and the Church Chris Grant wrote: I don't think we should equate KSL's business decisions with the Church's imprimatur. Thom Duncan: KSL has in the past exercised editorial control over its shows. Eric D. Snider: All of this is reason No. 1 why the church should get out of the TV business. _______________ I agree with Eric that this is reason No. 1 why the Church should get out of the business. There are a number of other good reasons as well. "On the other hand," as Tevya* would say, the No. 1 reason why the Church should stay in the business is that it gives them access to satellite time and facilities to broadcast Church conferences and other programs. And, just think of that quality music we would have missed if KBYU hadn't aired the Pioneer Fireside Sunday night. KSL and KBYU are the tickets to the satellites for the Church, if they wish to provide any sort of general broadcast dissemination of Church programs and activities. Many years ago,** a decision was made that the broadcast businesses of the Church would be operated for profit, notwithstanding an occasional conflict between Church standards and the standards of the world. There were regulatory issues with the FCC involved in the decision. I imagine that as things change, these decisions are reevaluated on a regular basis and changed as warranted and as the needs of the Church are balanced with ways in which the message of the Gospel can be proclaimed, while still complying with the laws of the land (at least as far as the public airwaves and frequencies are concerned). Than again, considering Eric D. S's No. 1 reason, Tevye* also said, "On the other hand ... No! There is no other hand." Larry Jackson * _Fiddler on the Roof_ ** We discussed this in broadcasting courses in 1972, so it must have predated that time. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:03:05 -0500 From: Linda Adams Subject: Re: [AML] Spring 01 (Humor) _Irreantum_ At 06:13 PM 7/19/01, you wrote: >Linda, I'm grateful for your review of and response to the Humor issue. I >was especially glad that you "enjoyed most of it." Hey, it wasn't me. I did read it but haven't written up a review. I remember reading the post you're responding to. But who was it? At least, I *think* I'm the only Linda who currently, actively posts instead of lurking. Linda Adams Linda Adams adamszoo@sprintmail.com http://home.sprintmail.com/~adamszoo - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:35:09 -0500 From: Linda Adams Subject: RE: [AML] Morality and Art At 10:49 AM 7/20/01, you wrote: >Our reaction to any work of art, any piece of writing, is governed by >agency. I do not believe that are any books we shouldn't read. But there >are certainly books we shouldn't read in certain ways, with certain >intentions, with certain outcomes. Books can be an occasion for >temptation and sin, just like any conversation or letter or e-mail can be >an occasion for sin. On a personal note, I govern my choices for what to read and what to see by the Spirit. I frequently use "movie ratings" as a general guideline (I put that in quotes because they're not very reliable for defining moral content, but that's another, much rehashed discussion), but I still use the Spirit as an additional, far more powerful and effective tool to show me what I, personally, will or will not be affected by in a negative (or positive) way. Books don't have "ratings." They hopefully never will. I've read books I wish I hadn't downloaded into my brain--not because they were inherently evil but because I couldn't handle the content very well, personally. Same for certain movies. (One of them was a PG (?!) -rated movie called "Beethoven." It was hideous, sick, and INTENDED for children's enjoyment. Which I still can't figure.) I figure that God knows me intimately, and he also knows every single word and/or scene in every movie, and he knows what will enrich my life and experience and what will not (or, in other words, what would constitute sin or temptation to sin, or disturb my psyche beyond what I'm able to cope with). I hold that this is a unique and *different* boundary or guideline for every individual. As Eric stated, the world would be a better place had Timothy McVeigh NOT read those diaries: it had a profound negative effect, yet reading the *same* document did not have the identical profound effect on Eric. I could list several books and movies I've been warned away from seeing or reading through the Spirit. I could also list items with ratings or content others might find objectionable but which I did not, and found my life enriched and enhanced by that reading/viewing experience. But I won't list the titles, because what was right or wrong for me may not be the same at all for someone else, and listing the titles will only cause controversy and/or judgment. I can only say I've literally stood in the library, bookstore, video store or wherever, holding an item in my hands , and had the Spirit say either "go ahead, you'll like that one," or "no, don't try that one, it's not for you." We are all individual. Let the Spirit guide you. It works. When I listen, I haven't been disappointed. And on the occasions I stubbornly haven't listened (I make NO claim to perfection :-} ) I've been sorry later that I didn't. Linda Adams adamszoo@sprintmail.com http://home.sprintmail.com/~adamszoo - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:59:25 -0600 From: "D. Michael Martindale" Subject: Re: [AML] OSC series (was: HULS, _Just Wait_) Tami Miller wrote: > When I found out that Orson Scott Card was LDS I started > reading his books (Saints, Lost boys, etc.) Strangely, I cannot remember the > name of the series I'm talking about, but I'm sure D. Michael has it > memorized!) When I got to the books that he paralleled to The Book of > Mormon, it made me want to read The Book of Mormon, just so that I could > understand Card's books. He's written more than one series. The one based on the Book of Mormon is "Homecoming." Another one loosely based on Joseph Smith's life is "Alvin Maker." A third one based on nothing LDS is the Ender series, which has recently become two-pronged--two series diverging in different directions based on the original book. He's also starting up a series of books on Old Testament women with _Sarah_, and has a trilogy going starting with _Lovelock_ ("Mayflower" trilogy I believe it's called). "Pastwatch" is also a planned series with only one book out so far. Was that good enough for you? - -- D. Michael Martindale dmichael@wwno.com ================================== Check out Worldsmiths, the new online LDS writers group, at http://www.wwno.com/worldsmiths Sponsored by Worlds Without Number http://www.wwno.com ================================== - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:11:20 -0600 From: "J. Scott Bronson" Subject: [AML] J. Scott BRONSON, _The Whipping Boy_ (Unpublished) This is the six-year tale of a man and his book. (Seven years if you count the year that it took to write the darn thing.) The man is me and the book is _The Whipping Boy_, which for a short time was called, _A Day of Peace_, when I was convinced by someone that the original title would confuse too many people with that Newberry award winning book from a few decades back. Later, I convinced myself that I preferred my original title and changed it back. For anyone interested in this kind of thing, here is the history of my attempts to get it published: 1. In 1995 I sent _The Whipping Boy_ (full manuscript) and _Love or Devotion: A Boy's Life_ (one chapter) to Hatrack River Publications. I liked the editorial stance of this company and I liked the first couple of books that they published and, quite frankly, I was hoping to get a forword for my novel by the inestimable Orson Scott Card. Eleven months later I received a rejection apologizing for the long delay with the explanation that my novels did not fit into their "somewhat narrow publishing plans." Managing editor, Kristine Card, in the rejection stated that HRP was "concentrating on contemporary, adult Mormon novels that deal[t] with the uniquely Mormon experience of living in the 'small town' community of a ward. For the forseeable future [they would] not be publishing novels that deal[t] primarily with children and young adults." I assume that this was an editorial focus that was decided on after the publication of _Gert Fram_. In regard to _Love or Devotion_, I could understand the decision to reject based on that focus. With _The Whipping Boy_, however, it was obvious that no one had read past the first scene in the book which takes place in a primary class from the POV of one of the boys in the class. If anyone had read further they would have discovered that every member of a particular family gets their day in court as it were and that the book dealt primarily with the whole family. This caused me to consider some way to make it obvious in that first scene to editors and potential readers that the book actually has an adult tone and focus. I couldn't do it. I finally decided that I needed that first scene to be where it was and how it was. I could only hope that people browsing in a store would not be put off by the fact that the first POV character we meet is an eleven-year-old boy. 2. In April of 1996 I had lunch with Jay Parry of Deseret Book and handed over the manuscript to him. Five months later I received a very nice rejection letter. He felt that my writing was clear and straightforward and that I dealt with issues that "are important to everyone who feels." Unfortunately, he also felt that there was a quality to my writing that limited the audience. The word he used to describe this quality was "heavy." It was his feeling that the reading audience for what he considered to be a dark and depressing world was relatively small. While he liked the quality of my writing, he thought the choice of story and character -- though well depicted -- were limited in their appeal. In other words, DB wasn't comfortable in trying to market this book. That's understandable. I didn't think they'd want it, but Jay wanted to read it anyway. 3. In July of '97 I took the manuscript to Bookcraft. A year later I got a very positive rejection from Cory Maxwell. He was terribly emabarrassed at how long it took to get back to me, but I wasn't upset or anything. How can anyone be mad at such a nice guy. Besides, it's not like there's only one person reading and making the decision. The decision not to publish came down to the marketability of the book. "There were some concerns that the manuscript [was] a bit bleak." The positive part came with Cory's comments about the quality of the writing, which he liked. He said that it was finely crafted and dealt honestly and effectively with sensivite issues and relationships. 4. In '99 I saw Paul rawlins on a panel at the Mormon Arts Festival -- the one that was held at BYU. I approached him afterward and asked if Aspen Books was currently accepting fiction. He said that they were and that I should send in whatever I had. I did, and withing three weeks got a form rejection, unsigned from the Review Committee. I can't imagine a committee making a decision that fast so I have assumed that they were in fact, NOT considering fiction at the time. Wish I had known that. Perhaps I'm wrong, and they did actually decide that "[my] manuscript [didn't] fit [their] needs at [that] time." But I doubt it. 5. I submitted _The Whipping Boy_ to Marilyn Brown's contest in '99 and it was rejected Feb. '00 with comments along the line (I've lost the little scrap of paper with the three or four handwritten lines that were paperclipped to the manuscript) that the story was too simple and preachy. I thought a cursory critique like that was rather insulting to people who had put so much into writing and presenting a novel in a professional manner and told Marilyn so. She apologized and told me that she would alter the form of giving out the judges' comments in the future. For penance, Marilyn actually read the novel herself ... and agreed with the judes. But she spent more time telling me so, so that was nice. She didn't think that the book resembled a novel as much as a "potpouri of 'sunday school lessons.'" She didn't think that the writing got good until the last 25 pages. Let me step out here for a second and point out that these are all just opinions. Anything these editors and judges have to say are nothing more than opinions. I, as the writer, have the right to take them or leave them. Some I took. Most I left. I know what kind of book I was trying to write, and if it doesn't fit the parameters of any given publisher, well, too bad for me. But I'm not going to run to the keyboard after every rejection and rewrite to that editor's comments then try to get a DIFFERENT editor to buy it. I'll assess all comments, accept or reject them based on my vision, rewrite or not, then hope that the market will someday open up to that vision of mine. 6. I had a talk with Tyler Moulton at last year's AML Writers' Conference and decided to take my manuscript to Covenant. Eight months later I got another rejection. Although their opinion was that the manuscript was "well written," their editors found it to be "somewhat lacking in the development of characters." Here's one of those opinions that I have to reject. I know what my strengths and weaknesses are as a writer. I'm not much in the way of developing plot, but I know I'm good at character and dialogue at the very least. This manuscript is nothing if not 215 pages of in depth character analysis. Here, I think, is the real reason that the book was rejected: "[We] feared our readership would be offended by the significant sexual undertones ... alongside gospel themes." It was unsigned, "Sincerely, The Editors." I find that a bit odd for some reason. As for the sexual undertones, well, yeah. Marcus wants sex. He ain't getting much so he thinks about it from time to time. There are no scenes where sex actually occurs. There is a scene where a fourteen-year-old girl, on a sudden whim, tries to nurse a baby that she is sitting for. That becomes a defining moment in her life; a source of great guilt that follows here for a long time. So, what's the point of all this? Well, we spend a lot of time talking about trying to write and sell books to the Mormon audience, and I thought it might be of interest to a select few to see exactly how that process goes sometimes. And this: I've got nobody else to send it to in this market -- that I'm willing to send it to. Many of you are probably saying, "What about Signature?" What about them? They don't promote their fiction. I don't write just to be published, I write to be read. And so, I've decided to give it away. If you want to read this book, just let me know. I'll attach a copy to you in any format you want. Almost any format. Whatever I've got in this computer -- WPF, RTF, MSW - -- I'll give you. And now, I've got a different book to write. J. Scott Bronson -- Member of Playwrights Circle - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." Galileo - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:57:19 -0600 From: Mike South Subject: RE: [AML] Utah Mormon Culture Jacob Proffitt wrote: > I also recently learned of the existence of a Utah gang called the > "Straight Edgers". This gang has strong morality at its core and > intolerance as its banner. I don't know of any other state where a > person's strong morals can tempt them to join a gang. Utah is a > peculiar state, no doubt about it, but I'd hesitate to quantify that > difference as easy or hard, or good or bad. The Straight Edge movement actually goes back to the mid-80s beginning with a punk band in the Washington, D.C. area called Minor Threat. They wrote a song called _Straight Edge_ decrying the use of alcohol and drugs and advocating a "straight edge" lifestyle. While this message had good elements, it also included a definite anti-authoritarian streak (as all good punk music does). The band members themselves lived up to what they preached, and many kids followed them. Groups of disaffected youth across the country began to adopt this posture, and somewhere along the way it became acceptable to enforce this belief system on others. If you see someone smoking a cigarette, take it out of his mouth. Then beat him up so he remembers not to smoke again. Some groups even go so far as to attempt to enforce a vegan lifestyle. The idea behind the song was keep yourself clean to keep yourself in control - -- you'll be subject to no one but yourself. Sadly, though, the reasons to be clean and in control were distorted. I thought that Edward Norton's character in _American History X_ was a perfect portrayal of what can happen to a person with this kind of thinking. (I know he wasn't portraying a straight-edger, but the attitudes are much the same.) - --Mike South - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:28:01 -0600 From: Mike South Subject: Re: [AML] Mormon Graphic Novels Barbara Hume wrote: > When I was a Baptist kid, one of the items I received in Sunday School each > week was a comic strip featuring two young Christians in early Rome. I > read those avidly. One character was named Nereus, I think--don't remember > the other one. It was probably a good teaching device. I always loved > church, even as a very young person. Something like that might be good for > LDS kids. I've actually been thinking for a while about the idea of a comic strip with a Mormon character in it. I think it would address the problem that we are afraid we won't be accepted by the outside world because they don't know the "real us". I think comic strips as a medium offer a unique opportunity to establish long-term relationships between the characters and the reader. Most of us know just how Charlie Brown feels when he vows that this is the year he's going to kick that football. Or how Calvin feels when he's rudely yanked from his adventures as Spaceman Spiff back into his classroom at school. We know because day-after-day and year-after-year we got to know the characters. And even though the authors have moved on or even died, the characters are still part of us. I think a well done strip with a Mormon character could both tell great stories and show the world that we know we have foibles just like everyone else. And how we deal with the fact that deep down many of us feel like we're not supposed to have those foibles. Of course, well done is subjective. Many strips today seem like shallow imitations of bad sitcoms -- just an excuse for characters to zing each other. Or to show how witty the author can be when weighing in on political topics of the day. But there are examples from the past that show the form is more than capable of handling difficult themes, complex characterization, and engaging story lines: Krazy Kat, Little Nemo In Slumberland, and Barnaby come to mind. In the last 50 years though there have been fewer notable strips. The only great ones I can think of are Peanuts, Bloom County, and Calvin & Hobbes. Just thinkin' out loud. - --Mike South - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:53:42 -0400 From: Richard Johnson Subject: Re: [AML] Fiction in Church Mags Larry Jackson wrote: > > Rich Hammett: > > BTW, did anyone ever come up with documentation > on the "no fiction in church mags" policy? My returned > missionary e-mail list thinks that I made the whole thing up. For what it's worth, the no-fiction policy was posted on the AML list by a member of the editorial staff of the _Ensign_ Richard Johnson - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:57:36 -0400 From: Richard Johnson Subject: Re: [AML] Michael O. TUNNELL, _Brothers in Valor_ luannstaheli wrote: > > I believe it is. There was also a non-fiction book about these boys a > year or > more ago in the LDS market. > > Rose Green wrote: > > > By any chance is the book about Helmut Huebner and his friends? > This may be answered already (I am sorting through over four hundred e-mails that were awaiting me when I returned from a trip to Vancouver WA. to see my granson baptized and my new granddaughter blessed), but there is a book _Before the Blood Tribunal_ for which I wrote a review for the list about six years ago. Richard B. Johnson - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:18:38 -0500 From: Craig Huls Subject: [AML] Eudora Welty Dead at 92 Just read in PW Daily that Mississippi's Eudora Welty, 1909-2001 passed away. Demonstrating the extent to which Eudora Welty is venerated in her native Mississippi, her body will lie in state Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Old State Capitol. She died in Jackson yesterday at age 92. The exquisitely restored venue was the site for the ceremony in which she was awarded the Legion of Honor medal--France's highest civilian honor--in 1996, three years before she became the first living American writer included in the Library of America and 23 years after The Optimist's Daughter, one of her five novels, won a Pulitzer Prize. (Among her other encomiums was the 1987 National Medal of Arts.) Taken from PW Daily Copyright 2001, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:43:53 -0500 From: Larry Jackson Subject: [AML] Mormon News Posts [MOD: Thanks for both Debra and Larry for their work.] Debra Brown has graciously offered to take up the baton and forward MN post of interest to the AML List. Please be as patient with her as you were with me, while I fiddled with the behind-the-scenes technicalities of the process. Thanks to Debra for her willingness to contribute. And, as always, thanks to Jonathan for letting them slide on through to the list from time to time. It's been a pleasure to be of some service to the List. As I step away from the plate, I'll still be around, practicing my speed reading skills more often than I would wish. Larry Jackson ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:50:32 -0500 From: Larry Jackson Subject: [AML] MN "Brigham Young" to be screened at Lee Library July 26: BYU Press Release From: BYU Press Release To: Mormon News Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:00:00 -0400 Subject: MN "Brigham Young" to be screened at Lee Library July 26: BYU Press Release 12Jul01 US UT Prov A6 [From Mormon-News] "Brigham Young" to be screened at Lee Library July 26 PROVO, UTAH -- The Special Collections Motion Picture Film Archive at Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library will present the feature film "Brigham Young" on Thursday (July 26) at 7 p.m. The free screening is the archive's birthday tribute to Brigham Young. The film is an historic motion picture that dramatized for a worldwide audience the trek of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley in 1846-47. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. No food or drink is permitted in the Lee Library Auditorium located on the library's first level, and everyone eight years of age and over is welcome. While admission is free, seating is limited. "Brigham Young" was the first major feature-length motion picture dealing with the history of the Church of Jesus Christ that received full cooperation from Church leaders. "It was a landmark film primarily because it reversed more than three decades of negative portrayals of Latter-day Saints," says James D'Arc, curator of the Special Collections Motion Picture Film Archive. President Heber J. Grant worked closely with producer and studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck at Twentieth Century-Fox for nearly two years while the film was in various stages of production. President Grant announced to the press, following a preview screening in August 1940, that the film would be a "friendmaker. I would not change a line." "Brigham Young" featured a then-stellar cast that included leading Fox stars Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell as the romantic interest. Vincent Price, in one of his early film roles, appeared as Joseph Smith. The title role went to Dean Jagger who, on the strength of his performance in "Brigham Young," was signed to a long-term contract with the studio. He later received an Academy Award in 1949 as best supporting actor in "Twelve O'Clock High." An accompanying exhibit, "The Fox and the Lion: Darryl F. Zanuck's Brigham Young," will be presented by the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Department during the months of July and August. The exhibit contains materials connected with the making and release of the 1940 film. Located next to the Lee Library Auditorium, the exhibit is open Mondays through Saturdays during the library's normal operating hours, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Admission to the exhibit is free. -###- Source: "Brigham Young" to be screened at Lee Library July 26 BYU Press Release 12Jul01 US UT Prov A6 http://www.byu.edu/news/releases/Jul/Young.htm >From Mormon-News: Mormon News and Events Forwarding is permitted as long as this footer is included Mormon News items may not be posted to the World Wide Web sites without permission. Please link to our pages instead. For more information see http://www.MormonsToday.com/ Send join and remove commands to: majordomo@MormonsToday.com Put appropriate commands in body of the message: To join: subscribe mormon-news To leave: unsubscribe mormon-news To join digest: subscribe mormon-news-digest - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:11:54 +0000 From: "Tami Miller" Subject: Re: [AML] J. Scott BRONSON, _The Whipping Boy_ (Unpublished) What a great attitude! I hope I have the conviction that you do, to keep trying, when I work up the courage to start submitting and receive the inevitable rejection letters. I would love to read your book. I was also thinking that Worldsmiths, D. Michael Martindale's writers group would probably like to read it. Tami Miller - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:13:09 +0000 From: "Tami Miller" Subject: Re: [AML] OSC series (was: HULS, _Just Wait_) Ah, Just as I suspected! [Tami Miller] >From: "D. Michael Martindale" [snip] > >He's written more than one series. The one based on the Book of Mormon >is "Homecoming." Another one loosely based on Joseph Smith's life is >"Alvin Maker." A third one based on nothing LDS is the Ender series, >which has recently become two-pronged--two series diverging in different >directions based on the original book. He's also starting up a series of >books on Old Testament women with _Sarah_, and has a trilogy going >starting with _Lovelock_ ("Mayflower" trilogy I believe it's called). >"Pastwatch" is also a planned series with only one book out so far. > >Was that good enough for you? - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:19:32 -0700 From: "Jeff Savage" Subject: Re: [AML] Sex in Literature > Craig Huls wrote > My question is: has anyone written something like this for a 11-12 > year old so that preparation for the onslaught of raging hormones and peer > pressure is made easier to handle. This may not be the site to discuss this, > but I am interested in any answers. dc.huls@verizon.net > It's out of print, but I found a copy recently through half.com, so I know they are around. It's called "The Love Book" by songwriter Marvin Payne, published by Bookcraft in 1980. I gave this book to my 11 year-old son and 13 year-old daughter to read and they both loved it. It does an amazing job of preparing young adults for those raging hormones in a VERY entertaining, while still spiritually uplifting, way. Just a quick example from the second chapter titled "Superman" (Bookcraft and Marvin, I hope you don't mind me reprinting this, but get the darn thing republished. It is great!) "But it was fifth grade when it all came to a head. I vividly remember praying every night in the fifth grade. Something like, 'If there is any way, in the great plan for the world and its inhabitants, that Lilli Purcell can be made to love me, I'll keep all the commandments. I'll keep commandments I'm not even old enough to understand yet. You can make up whole new commandments, hard ones, I don't care - I'll keep them all. Because she's so skinny and so smart and plays kickball so good... But if there's no way. If in all the destinies of men and stars such a thing is not meant to be; if it would violate some grand eternal plan for Lilli Purcell to love me . . . how 'bout Janice Robinson?' The answer was 'no.' It came in the classic Doctrine and Covenants manner - a stupor of thought. Of course I hadn't read the Doctrine and Covenants, so I didn't accept the answer and kept the stupor. here's a tragic picture: A little fifth grader, muddling around in a stupor of thought, walking headlong into bikes, trees, adults. Stupors manifest themselves in different ways. With me it was that I slept a lot in class." The whole book is written in this fun kind of style. You can read it in an afternoon, but I still remembered it after twenty years when I wanted something like it for my kids. - -Jeff Savage - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #405 ******************************