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Mormons and modernity, LDS Art Critical Reader first look
November 26, 2024
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving! No Mormon Literaturstreit post this month—but there are still some echoes to come, including a post on Eugene England I hope to...
Mormon Literaturstreit echoes and Bookshop registry
October 29, 2024
Hello. Happy All Hallow’s eve eve eve! Two quick updates on what I’m working on: I’m making slow but important progress on the SF novella about the Mormon...
Mormon Literaturstreit: why not the Mormons?
September 30, 2024
Hello! In this month’s newsletter, we arrive at the end of the Mormon Literaturstreit proper (but not the end of the series), and I provide an update on The...
Mormon Literaturstreit: the rooted and the open
August 27, 2024
August edition: Synthesizing Mormon literary criticism and exploring the afterlife through literature.
On Buffalo Flats and portraying religious experience in fiction
July 30, 2024
Hello. I was going to sneak in a Mormon Literaturstreit post here at the end of July, but I used that time to read Martine Leavitt’s Buffalo Flats instead...
Mormon literaturstreit: against the Sophic Tide!
July 1, 2024
Hello. I have two things for you: an overview of the next entry in the Mormon Literaturstreit and an update on how my fiction writing is going (what a...
Mormon literaturstreit opening salvos and more
June 4, 2024
Hello. May was my busiest month at work. Part of that is preparations for Commencement (I work in the marketing and communications department at a college)...
Mormon literaturstreit overview + new flash fiction
April 30, 2024
Hello. In April, I was sick for most of the month, but did manage to post about the Mormon literaturstreit, released another piece of drone music (A Basin of...
Mormon literaturstreit sneak peak + Mormon aesthetics
March 25, 2024
Hello. It’s been a mild winter here in Minnesota. But it also snowed a few days ago. As my daughter said: having snow and seasonal allergies at the same time...
William's new novella & AMV Deep dive news
February 27, 2024
Hello! It’s been awhile, but I'm back with the A Motley Vision newsletter and plan for it to be more regular (but not weekly thing). If you are receiving...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form wrap up, survey, and some links
November 17, 2022
Hello! This is the last email of AMV Deep Dive Season 1. Thanks for sticking with me! Before I get into Liberating Form, some links related to my story...
AMV Deep Dive: Liberating Form--Graduation! To What?
November 3, 2022
SUBJECT: AMV Deep Dive–Graduation! To What? BODY COPY: Welcome to the sixteenth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form:...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: Whose Yoke is Easy?
October 13, 2022
Welcome to the fifteenth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark's collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: In the Midst of Miracle---So What?
September 29, 2022
Welcome to the fourteenth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: The Virtue of "Virtue"
September 15, 2022
Welcome to the thirteenth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive–Liberating Form: A Not Unrepentant Mistruster of Mormon Literature
September 1, 2022
Welcome to the twelfth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: Paradox and Tragedy in Mormonism
August 18, 2022
Welcome to the eleventh email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: Zion and the Arts
August 4, 2022
Welcome to the tenth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive: AML conference interregnum
July 21, 2022
Hello. Due to preparations for the AML conference and me getting sick (not COVID, which is great, but also now I really don't want to get it while my immune...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: The New Mormon Mysticism
July 7, 2022
Welcome to the eighth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark's collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: We Have Our Standards (For Mormon Writers)
June 23, 2022
Welcome to the seventh email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark's collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: Science, Religion, and the Humanities
June 9, 2022
Welcome to the sixth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
AMV Deep Dive--Liberating Form: Mormons & Education
May 26, 2022
Welcome to the fifth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
A Motley Vision Deep Dive -- Liberating Form: Human Freedom
May 12, 2022
Welcome to the fourth email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
A Motley Vision Deep Dive -- Liberating Form: Art, Religion, Marketplace
April 28, 2022
Welcome to the third email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark’s collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
A Motley Vision Deep Dive -- Liberating Form: The Title Essay
April 14, 2022
Welcome to the second email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark's collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. This email focuses...
A Motley Vision Deep Dive -- Liberating Form: The Foreword
March 31, 2022
Welcome to the first email in a series looking at Marden J. Clark's collection Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature. In this email,...
New A Motley Vision email project---Deep Dive on Liberating Form
March 9, 2022
Hello. This is William Morris. You're receiving this email because you signed up at one point for a quarterly newsletter from A Motley Vision, the Mormon...
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