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Salt Lake City – The Last Days

michael — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:47:58 +0000

Leaving on a jet plane. Not that one.

Signature Books' Tom Kimball, Jan Shipps, and the leaning tower of me.

“Making Space on the Western Frontier” wins a Mormon History award

michael — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:08:49 +0000

Mormon-Chronicles reports that W. Paul Reeve’s Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Minors, and Southern Paiutes won a Best First Book award from the Mormon History Association.

By Common Consent’s interview with Eric Eliason

michael — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:29:43 +0000

Steve Evans, writing for the Mormon site By Common Consent, interviews University of Illinois Press author Eric Eliason about his new book The J. Golden Kimball Stories. In his introduction to the interview, Evans says, “the book is a great read and can be recommended as a Christmas gift for those family members who persist in using profanity in their Church talks.”

J. Golden Kimball: Man AND Myth?

michael — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:09:19 +0000

A Motley Vision ponders the contents of Eric Eliason’s new book The J. Golden Kimball Stories.

“There was a time when I had my doubts about the existence of J. Golden Kimball. I wanted him to be real. But I was afraid he was only the creation of slightly uncouth (though thoroughly orthodox) family and friends.”

Juvenile Instructor’s “The Future of Mormon Publishing”

michael — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:03:38 +0000

The Juvenile Instructor, observing that the University of Illinois Press has been at the forefront of Mormon Studies publishing but has recently lost an acquisitions editor in that discipline to retirement, asks, “Where is the future for Mormon history scholarship?”