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Flunking Sainthood
Gush, Gush . . . I Got to Interview Barbara Brown Taylor!
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Jana Riess
This month’s WJK Radio podcast has been posted, and I am all aflutter. Barbara Brown Taylor is one of my favorite spirituality writers, so it was a great honor to get to talk to her. You’ll be impressed with how I was actually able to carry on a conversation even while crowing inwardly, “I am…
Amazon + Audible.com = Amazing: A Marketing Story
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Jana Riess
Last week I succumbed to the “lure of the free.” I saw on Twitter that Audible.com was offering Kindle users a limited-time promotion, in which Samuel L. Jackson‘s 6-minute audio rendition of the new sensation “Go the F**k to Sleep” would be available free of charge. (It’s now $4.99.) According to CNN, more than 160,000…
YA Fiction Review: “Wicked Lovely”
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Jana Riess
Our summer of frothy fiction continues with Wicked Lovely, the first in a YA series about faeries and the high school girls who . . . don’t quite love them. The trivia: Grade: B+ Age group: Suitable for 14 and up Other books I’ve read by this author: None How I found the book: The…
Mormon Women, Twilight, and Internalized Sexism
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Jana Riess
A couple of years ago, I published a BYU Studies article about Mormon themes in Twilight that was picked up by Meridian, an LDS website. I received some feedback on the piece, mostly positive, though several readers took issue with one criticism I made about Stephenie Meyer’s series: “I find myself concerned about the retrogressive…
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