Skip to content

Getting in the Game

Categories:

How academic and athletic success made Utah a player with other elite universities in the West. (The first in a two-part series on the University of Utah joining the Pac-12. Next issue, we explore some of the money concerns around the U’s entry into the conference.) ~As Utah fans converged upon the state Capitol steps […]

Read More

Engendering Curiosity

From spirituality to scholarship, Professor Kathryn Stockton asks difficult questions—and sometimes finds unexpected answers. No one would confuse the road to Salt Lake City with the one to Damascus. But for Kathryn Bond Stockton, the journey that brought her from a nearly ordained Episcopal priest to professor of English, celebrated queer theorist, and director of […]

Read More

A Mind Aflame

Professor, writer, and editor Lance Olsen might make your head explode. As the author of 10 novels, four short-story collections, four critical studies, one hypertext, a poetry chapbook, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction and chair of the board of edgy publisher […]

Read More

More of Our Conversation with Lance Olsen

Categories:

WEB EXTRA~ Would you talk a little more about your sense of collaboration? Maybe it would be helpful to point out that collaboration is the basic mode of most writing, most creative acts, although our culture usually likes to repress that fact by embracing the Romantic myth of the solitary artist creating in the solitary […]

Read More