Walter Kirn explains why the William Law X-Mormon of the Year
award means more to him than anything Hollywood has to offer:
“Up in the Air” rocks, but winning “X-Mormon of the Year” rules.
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Collecting Nominations for the 2024 Brodie Awards!!
(The nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2024 are currently open here.) This year marks the fifteenth year of the Brodie Awards!!! I hope many of you are already familiar with how this works — but I also hope there are also some new people participating for the first time…
On the church’s uniqueness
…Sometimes, these blog entries just take too much time to set up…anyway, I was reading Mormon Matters and getting into the discussion there, and Bruce had said something that I found intriguing: …John Dehlin suggested that it was a mistake for modern Mormons to down play what he calls รขโฌล19th…
My Favorite Rules!
Ever since Donna Banta posted this old LDS Living article to facebook a few weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about all the rules that define the LDS lifestyle, and how they change. Specifically, the article is about how Mormon families should forbid their kids from sleeping over at friends’ houses….
That’s hilarious. I definitely have to read Walter Kirn’s books.
That is fabulous!!!
What a cool guy. OK, I’m moving some of his books up to the top of my to-read pile. ๐
I’m running Firefox 3.6 on a Mac and the masthead is nowhere to be seen. Anybody else not seeing a masthead?
Masthead=missing, totally.
Love the video clip.
Sorry about the masthead issue. I was sent a new masthead and tried to get it working, but apparently the file was corrupt. I tested it on Google Chrome, and Chrome rendered it despite it being corrupt. Firefox didn’t. So, until I get a non-corrupted version back, the old masthead is back.
Please give me a shout if this doesn’t display properly at the link:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f394/Chino_Blanco/XMO-Masthead.jpg
Otherwise, grab it! ๐
His books are on my list now.
Nice masthead! The younger Mr Kirn looks like Kevin Bacon. I wonder how many degrees that is.
Did Walter Kirn abandon us once he was covered in glory from his award? Where’s the acceptance speech?
He’ll probably come back once the newspapers cover this story! ๐
Seems like he’s pretty busy giving interviews since winning the USC Libraries Scripter Award. If we don’t hear anything soon, I’ll go ahead and write up the press release.
I am a year late, but I just finished the book and it was great.
Well written with a fresh perspective- my only beef is with the ending, which is undoubtedly intended as ironic.
I highly recommend the book to all former mormons, or people who appreciate character development OR, most importantly, anyone who has had to sit through any business motivational speeches or training.