Chapter 4: Words and Phrases You Must Never Use in Utah
previous: Chapter 3: The Rocky Mormon Picture Show During the third and fourth weeks, things at the workshop started to...
Clarion, My Wayward SonA collection of 5 posts
Chapter 3: The Rocky Mormon Picture Show
previous: Chapter 2: Gentiles on My Mind This was East Lansing, early on a summer Sunday morning: brown, brown, everywhere grainy brown, like the dust from an old sepia photograph risen into the air, floating like...
Chapter 2: Gentiles on My Mind
previous: Chapter 1: Clarion Call This is Michigan State University in the summer: green, green, everywhere riotous green. No place in Utah was so green as this--vast swards of grassy green, mounded citadels of rolling green,...
Chapter 1: Clarion Call
previous: Foreword I wonder sometimes what might have happened if I'd moved out of the house when I started college. While many of my friends from high school were reveling in their new apartments...
Foreword
The original draft of The Accidental Terrorist, the memoir of my days as a Mormon elder, contained four chapters devoted to my stay at the infamous Clarion science-fiction writing workshop in the summer of 1985. These...