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.
God as a Black Woman
Enjoy this gorgeous depiction of God as a black woman creating a black Eve. Read more about it here.
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Collecting Nominations for the 2021 Brodie Awards!!! (and 2020…)
It’s that time of year!! Time to recognize the best LDS-interest works of the year by giving them Brodie Awards!! When we first started doing these awards more than 10 years ago, the online discussion of Mormonism was mostly taking place on blogs (like this one!) — but that has…
Collecting Nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2016
It’s awards season again, and this year’s contest for William Law X-Mormon of the Year looks like it will be the most exciting one yet!! When Jeremy Runnells excommunicated the church at his disciplinary council this past Spring, I immediately concluded that he had the 2016 X-Mormon of the Year…
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. 😀
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! 🙂
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! 😀
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.