Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction

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Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction anthologizes the best short stories by Mormon authors written near the turn of the twenty-first century. Each of the extraordinary twenty-eight stories in this volume represents a potent individual voice, from popular and nationally acclaimed authors Brady Udall and Orson Scott Card, to well-respected Mormon literature veterans Douglas Thayer and Margaret Blair Young, to talented up-and-coming writers Lisa Madsen Rubilar and Todd Robert Petersen, and many more. Taken individually, each story is an example of the surprise and power and even joy readers can find in a finely wrought piece of short fiction. Considered collectively, these stories herald a new era of excellence in Mormon literature.  As Margaret Blair Young writes in her introduction, "In Dispensation, Angela Hallstrom has assembled twenty-eight gems--each a star in a brilliant constellation.  This particular collection is a pinnacle."

The following authors have stories appearing in this volume:

Lee Allred                    Matthew James Babcock       Phyllis Barber           Orson Scott Card
Mary Clyde                  Arianne Cope                         Darin Cozzens          Lisa Torcasso Downing
Brian Evenson             Angela Hallstrom                   Jack Harrell               Lewis Horne
Helen Walker Jones    Bruce Jorgensen                    Larry Menlove           Laura McCune-Poplin
Coke Newell                Todd Robert Petersen            Levi Peterson            Paul Rawlins
Karen Rosenbaum       Lisa Madsen Rubilar              Eric Samuelsen        Darrell Spencer
Douglas Thayer           Stephen Tuttle                        Brady Udall               Margaret Blair Young




REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS


The Utah County Daily Herald article                             Segullah Review
A Motley Vision interview                                                By Common Consent review
By Common Consent interview                                      Life on Gold Plates review
Thmazing's Thutopia review                                           Margaret Blair Young's introduction