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Author: Andrew Hall

  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on August 7, 2021September 22, 2021

This Season in Mormon Literature, Summer 2021

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on May 7, 2021

Mystery Novels, the Search for Truth, and The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, by Katherine Cowley

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021

Literature in Dialogue, Spring 2021, and the Dialogue Book Report Podcast

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on February 2, 2021February 2, 2021

Heavenly Mother: Call for fiction and personal essay

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on January 29, 2021

Dialogue Book Report #9: Novels of polygamy and the Great Basin frontier

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on January 4, 2021

Dialogue Book Report #8: Andrew and Andrew on 2020 LDS books

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

Dialogue Fall 2020 and an interview with D.J. Butler and Mattathias Westwood

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Gene England in his office in the 80s
  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on October 9, 2020

Eugene England, “Whipple’s The Giant Joshua: A Literary History of Mormonism’s Best Historical Fiction”

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