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Although it would take a lot more life experience for the lesson to sink in, it was important to have a sense at a young age that I wouldn’t settle...
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So, here it is, The D&S How to Be a Woman Week, wherein we’ll be discussing our favorite parts of the book and that scariest of all F-words — feminism
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What the writers of D&S are into now.
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In this series of posts I will explore ancient (and possibly modern) artifacts that relate to matters of faith and aesthetic desire. Among artifacts of the lands of the Bible,...
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Saturday was a terrible day. Nothing better than the bald statement, as they say. I was blue, so many shades of blue (NOT grey!) before dinner time that I decided...
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This is a guest post by Mark B (aka, Mark Mighty And Strong) about an early Mormon feminist and her husband, who is the most effective Mormon missionary you’ve never...
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What we’re into now.
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If you haven’t met her, I’d like to introduce you to Alice Louise Reynolds, a “founder” of The Lord’s University, a beloved BYU professor and one of our favorite Mormons....
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What was the line Adrian used to quote? ‘History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.’
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I don’t want you to feel “Jealousy,” really, I don’t. Still, you might be a teensy bit covetous when you find out that I’m going to see Spoon in two...
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Let’s just get the Shrek connection out of the way. The strange inclusion of the song “Hallelujah” in the enormously successful 2001 animated film (that launched a million sequels) helped...
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O Lord, how long shall thy hand be stayed from, and thine eye behold, the wrongs of thy people and of thy servants inflicted by our much prayed for, but...
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What the D&S writers are reading, watching, listening to, eating and browsing right now.
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The Artist is a bold, artsy stroke hidden in a big-hearted familiar story, or maybe it’s the other way around?
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I first came across movie critic Pauline Kael’s work in an undergraduate English course in the early 1980s. John Trimble, author of our textbook Writing with Style, showcased a few...
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Instead of putting my energies into losing weight – er, being healthy – or, you know, trying to be a better person, I think my life in music, books and...
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Today, a special Christmas guest post from Colin. They say that the first step in recovery is admitting that you have a problem, so here goes: Hi, my name is...
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I suspect every family has a list of Yuletide must-see TV such as “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, ” “A Christmas Story”...
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A few weeks ago, I was chatting with some of my students, seniors in a small, rural Texas high school, about what we were listening to. “Mylo Xyloto, the new...
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See what we’re into this month.
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Something is wrong with me. I’m not going to even make a case that the way I listen to music is in any way normal. A few years ago, a...
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“She’s pretty, but it’s much more than that. What is it?” she asked in innocent inquiry. “I think it must be because she’s so full of life, but not fussily,...
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In certain Republican circles, when Rick Perry says he believes in capital punishment you hear wild applause, but when Jon Huntsman says he believes in evolution you hear … crickets....
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With Beavis and Butthead starting again this week, Heidi enlists Jared to discuss the original and the world needs more Beavis and Butthead.
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What the D&S writers are doing this month.
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I think I had, in some way, consigned poetry readings to the territory of performance art and local avant garde theater — embarassingly earnest and unintentionally hilarious events featuring...
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It was hard to choose a favorite post for the Doves & Serpents one-year anniversary celebration this week. I thought I should choose the post that was most representative of Stacks...
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Today’s Stacks comes to us from EmilyCC, today’s guest for The Exponent and Doves and Serpent Blog Swap. Every so often, the bloggernacle has a discussion about the essential texts...
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“Novelists, poets and playwrights make literature; screenwriters make changes.” So jokes Scott Burns in a recent column titled “From Script to Screen with ‘Contagion,’” appearing in the 9-10-11 Wall Street...
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Part One, ages 6 to 18
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I’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it hidden for many years, but when my wife finally catches...
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This week, in video form: 1. Everything was going surpisingly well … 2. And then everything seemed to break — our car, the vacuum and computer. For good measure, someone...
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Check out what the Doves and Serpents writers are into now!
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When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat explores what makes a home or a family – the family goes through many incarnations –and how it can be difficult to find a...
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Read The Road only if you can handle the bittersweetness of life. Read The Road only if you can bear to carry the torch.
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I’ve written in the past about how different our literary taste tends to be. We are reliable (and not always complimentary) opposites.
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Few hymns seem to capture the Mormon spirit so completely or at ts best. The steady beginning building to the gorgeous swell of music and lyrics work together to convey...
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Four novels later, I find myself firmly in the critical admirers’ camp.
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What the writers of D&S are into right now.
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My husband and I both enjoy a really broad range of musical genres. As such, I’ve often wondered – how will our kids find a way to fulfill the role...
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Does reading make you a better person?
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For years, I’ve cited To Kill a Mockingbird as my favorite book whenever asked. But I’ve read a lot of books since I first read that book in ninth grade...
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Take a look at what we’re into right now.
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It’s obvious that female writers and male writers are equals and “greatness” is highly subjective so we don’t have to say a word, right? I’m not so sure.
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I loved this recent segment from NPR’s All Songs Considered about the bands that contributors have broken up with over the years and why. From the piece: “Context is everything here, so...
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Welcome back to Return and Report, a segment on Stacks where I give brief reports on what I’ve been reading or listening to lately. Today’s edition will feature an amazing book,...
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Now if you’re not “hot,” you are expected to work on it until you are.
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Since I pretty much like tackling any topic through reading, it should be no surprise that I like reading about sex.
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“It’s not about masculine or feminine. It’s about power, and passion, and weirdness”
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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we mean when we talk about “losing ourselves in a good book.”
