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New Mormon History Books

Two new books look back on Mormons in history, with varying degrees of reliability.

By Geoff Griffin
POSTED // Sep 27,2010 - It’s hard to think of two more quintessentially “American” events than the battle of Gettysburg and baseball’s World Series ...

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Driven: An Autobiography of Larry H. Miller

You Sort-of Know This Guy: Driven offers insight into Larry H. Miller only halfway.

By Geoff Griffin
POSTED // Jul 7,2010 - Doug Robinson writes in the introduction to Driven: An Autobiography that, “Perhaps only Brigham Young has done more for Utah than Larry H. Miller” ...

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Alt Press Fest

Fringe Print: DIY artists converge for a celebration of zines on Library Square.

By Austen Diamond
POSTED // Jul 5,2010 - Clint Watson has been reading about a “Scatological Think Cap” recently, along with all manner of other content in a slew of self-published, indie rags called zines. Of the more than 2,

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David Archuleta

David Archuleta may be young, but his memoir still inspires.

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // May 31,2010 - There was a time when the writing of memoirs was solely the bailiwick of old people ...

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The Lonely Polygamist

Bigger Love: The Lonely Polygamist turns a sympathetic eye to a struggling patriarch.

By Geoff Griffin
POSTED // Apr 28,2010 - The point was that while polygamy might initially sound appealing to men because it means you get to have sex with four different women without...

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Revolutions For Fun and Profit

Ryan Shattuck provides a sporadically funny mock guidebook to leading the uprising.

By Austen Diamond
POSTED // Feb 10,2010 - Shattuck isn't necessarily qualified to write a revolutionary guidebook—after all, he's never started his own. But, writing...

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Utah in the Twentieth Century

Book chronicles the state’s social and cultural transitions.

By Geoff Griffin
POSTED // Jan 13,2010 - Since the book is written by academics, it does a good job of tracing and documenting how the stereotypes about this place came to be.

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Ghosts of Glen Canyon

Land of the Lost: Ghosts of Glen Canyon revisits a submerged world.

By Geoff Griffin
POSTED // Oct 28,2009 - C. Gregory Crampton tries to put us "there" in the beautiful place that was the pre-Powell canyon, describing things that may well have been lost forever...

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Sara Zarr, Emily Wing Smith & Ann Dee Ellis

Young at Heart: Utah young-adult authors discuss the genre--and mutual respect--that unites them.

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Oct 21,2009 - Over the past few years, Utah has seen the emergence of several talented voices in young-adult fiction—books targeted at "tween" and teen readers. City Weekly gathered three of these authors...

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The Appearance of Evil

The Actor and the Housewife finds its heroine walking close to a dangerous line.

By Geoff Griffin
POSTED // Aug 19,2009 - Utah author Shannon Hale has pulled a publishing coup...
 
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