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Archive for September, 2009

• Jack Weyland’s Papers Come to BYU
  Posted September 11, 2009 by Kristi Young

  Jack Weyland began publishing novels in 1980 with his well-known and loved Charly.  Previously he wote short stories for The New Era.  Given the vibrant LDS literature community today, it is hard to believe that before Charly there was little in the way of Mormon fiction.  Jack has opened doors for many LDS writers who have [...]

• New critical works on Walt Whitman
  Posted September 9, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  The following scholarly monographs have recently been purchased for the Whitman Collection.   They are the newest additions to the hundreds of unique holdings by and about Whitman here at BYU Special Collections. Ronald Knapp, Of life immense: the prophetic vision of Walt Whitman.  Outskirts Press, 2008. A study of Whitman’s belief in universal religion. J. [...]