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  • Posted on June 28, 2024August 10, 2024

Thomas F. Rogers, A literary obituary

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2023 AML Award Finalists #3: Drama

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2023 AML Award Finalists #2: Young Adult and Children’s Books

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2023 AML Award Finalists #1: Novels and Short Fiction

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2024 AML Achievement Awards: Shannon Hale, Chris Crowe, and Carol Lynch Williams

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The Conduct of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time

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The Last Vision: An LDS Homage and Riff on David Markson’s Final Quartet

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Irreantum: Stories from the Blue Cherubim

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  • Sillito, “B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena” (Reviewed by Chad Curtis)
  • Pritchett, “Playing with Wildfire” (Reviewed by Adam McLain)
  • Woods, Buckley, and Hallows, “The Life and Adventures of Eli Wiggill: South African 1820 Settler, Wesleyan Missionary, and Latter-Day Saint” (Reviewed by Richard Ji)
  • Anderson “Bruce R. McConkie – Apostle and Polemicist” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)
  • Griffiths “Truth Seeker: The Life of Joseph F. Merrill, Scientist, Educator, and Apostle” (Reviewed by Chad Curtis)
  • Anderson, “Bruce R McConkie: Apostle and Polemicist, 1915-1985” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Page, “Future Day Saints” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Smoot & Passantino, “Joseph Smith’s Unpublished Revelations: (Reviewed by Mark Tensmeyer)
  • Alford, “Book of Mormon Insights: Letting God Prevail in Your Life” (Reviewed by Ivan Wolfe)
  • Page, “Future Day Saints: The New Arrivals” (Reviewed by Steven L. Peck)
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