http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8358-1-books.html By Geoff Griffin

I normally try to avoid hearing what other people think about a book before reviewing it—but in the case of Why I’m a Mormon, someone else’s reaction was the reason I wanted to read it.]]> By Scott Renshaw

It probably sounds like a cliché to say that Emily Pearson’s memoir Dancing With Crazy describes the kind of life that lands people on Geraldo.]]> By Geoff Griffin

Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. have both had to answer plenty of questions about Mormon doctrine during their presidential campaigns.]]> By Geoff Griffin

The classic Dickens tale A Christmas Carol begins with the sentence, “Marley was dead, to begin with.” Marley then goes on to play a pivotal role ...]]> By Scott Renshaw

For journalists, that mysterious line called “objectivity” is fragile under the most ideal circumstances. ]]> By Jacob Stringer

The Salt Lake City Main Library’s zine collection was founded in 1997 principally by one solitary librarian named Julie Bartel.]]> By Geoff Griffin

The conversion process is a great vehicle for storytelling: the immersion into new ideas; a person feeling his life changing; the moment when he sees the world in a whole new way ...]]> By Scott Renshaw

The new novel from author (Union Dues) and filmmaker (Matewan, Eight Men Out, Lone Star) John Sayles, A Moment in the Sun, is an epic spanning events in America ...]]> By Scott Renshaw

In 2009, the Twitter feed @FakeAPStylebook launched as a satire of the guide for journalism conventions, credited to a collection of contributors known as “The Bureau Chiefs.”]]> By Austen Diamond

If you haven’t finished 2010’s reading list, ditch it—because 2011 is shaping up nicely for books by local authors.]]> By Austen Diamond

If you haven’t finished 2010’s reading list, ditch it—because 2011 is shaping up nicely for books by local authors.]]> By Geoff Griffin

Two words generally not uttered in the same sentence with the Provo school are “environmentalism” and “Hollywood.” What would such traditionally liberal territory have to do with the conservative bastion of Utah County?]]> By Scott Renshaw

Lance Olsen’s new novel Calendar of Regrets is a fascinating, complex work that interweaves a dozen different stories set in a dozen different time periods ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

As the weather cools, leaves fall and the nights get longer, it’s the perfect time for some good ghost stories. ]]> By Scott Renshaw

Two Utah authors recently published follow-ups to successful novels with a violent edge.]]> By Geoff Griffin

It’s hard to think of two more quintessentially “American” events than the battle of Gettysburg and baseball’s World Series ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

Doug Robinson writes in the introduction to Driven: An Autobiography that, “Perhaps only Brigham Young has done more for Utah than Larry H. Miller” ...]]> By Austen Diamond

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,]]> By Brandon Burt

There was a time when the writing of memoirs was solely the bailiwick of old people ...]]> By Geoff Griffin

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...]]>