In the inaugural Book Report, Book Review Editor Andrew Hall and Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey discuss the reviews newly available in the Winter 2019 Issue including John Bennion’s Ezekiel’s Third Wife, Jana Riess’s The Next Mormons, and
two missionary memoirs: The Legend of Hermana Plunge and Bruder. Andrew then interviews Angela Liscom Clayton and Roger Terry about their mission memoirs.
Book Review Editor Andrew Hall discuss the rest of the reviews newly available in the Winter 2019 Issue of Dialogue, including Brooke Larson’s essay collection Pleasing Tree, D. Michale Quinn’s The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth & Corporate, and Laura Strickling’s On Fire in Baltimore. Andrew then interviews Craig Harline and Christopher Jones about the genre of mission memoirs, including Craig’s memoir Way Below the Angels, and a lively discussion situating the LDS mission experience within the larger Christian missionary experience.
New Books in Historical Fiction
Interview with Ann Weisgarber, author of the novel The Glovemaker. When a strange man knocks on Deborah Tyler’s door one January evening in 1888, she faces a difficult decision. She can guess that her visitor is a criminal, because who else would travel to her isolated Utah community in the dead of winter? And her husband, who normally handles such situations, left home five months ago and has not returned. She is tempted not to answer, but that will only send the unwanted traveler to the next house in Junction, endangering her younger sister and her sister’s children. Deborah has little sympathy for plural marriage or the men who practice it, but she is a loyal Mormon who distrusts those inclined to persecute her faith and cares about the families left destitute when their breadwinners flee. Deborah makes her choice. But the next day, a federal marshal arrives in pursuit. Threatened with prosecution for aiding and abetting a felon, Deborah fights to protect herself, her community, and those she loves from unpredictable consequences that draw her ever deeper into a web of secrets and lies.
All In: An LDS Living Podcast. Dean Hughes on the novel Muddy. Digging Into Polygamy and Other “Muddy” Issues.
All in: An LDS Living Podcast. Melissa Inouye and her memoir Crossings. Why Loving One Another is More Than Bringing Casseroles.
Face in Hat podcast “The Devil went down to Berkeley.” Hosts Aaron Brewster and Eric W Jepson discuss the devil in Mormon theology and culture. Includes of discussion of Steven Peck’s novel, The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals.
Baen Free Radio Hour. D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey discuss The Cunning Man, a fantasy novel set near a rural Utah mining camp during the Great Depression. The hero is a “cunning man,” a user of magic, who must solve the riddle of a haunted mine and of a trouble local family who may control the destiny of a camp full of out-of-work mining families; and Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia, Part 69
Baen Free Radio Hour. Larry Correia discusses Target Rich Environment Vol 2, a short fiction collection bringing together Correia’s latest fantasy and science fiction stories. This is part two, and the finale, of a two-part interview; and the short story “The Seven Nipples of Molly Kitchen” by D.J. Butler.
NPR Weekend Edition Sunday. Shannon Hale And LeUyen Pham discuss the middle grade graphic novel Best Friends, which is based on Hale’s childhood.