Speaker: Paul Swenson

Chick Flicks, Ick Flicks, and Sick Flicks

In the modern movie lexicon, the term ‘chick flick” has achieved a recent, rampant popularity. Aside from its inherent condescension, its primary difficulty is the implication that men and women are naturally and universally attracted to very different kinds of movies. Actually, the mass marketers of pop trash pictures have become the new Hollywood tastemakers …

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How High Is Up? Blue Skying in the Literary Stratosphere

Fiction and poetry take a flyer in a stratosphere and at-risk level that demands correlation of heart, humor, and intellect. This session brings together for the first time the wildest writers of two states, Idaho’s undomesticated Gino Sky and the irrepressible Alex Caldiero (Oeem via Sicily) and pairs them with poet Paul Swenson and award-winning …

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Discussion of

Following a brief break at the conclusion of the screening of Chasing a Good Day to Die, film critic Paul Swenson will lead a discussion of the film with its writer/director Paul Larsen and producer Terri Holland. As Sunstone attendees will be among the first groups to see the film, audience comments and suggestions will …

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More ‘Things Taking Place’: Writing in May’s Wake

More ‘Things Taking Place’: Writing in May’s Wake How do literary gifts of a family display themselves over generations? Following the prestigious poet May Swenson are two brothers, who took up the craft late in life to write in contrasting styles, and a nephew, just now emerging as a biting social critic, essayist, and fiction …

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The Backslider’s Revenge: An Interview with Levi Peterson

The Backslider’s Revenge: An Interview with Levi Peterson Levi Peterson, one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in Mormon letters, has recently left Utah after retiring from Weber State University, where he taught English. Peterson, the man behind the scraggly mustache, who is often clad in–yes–Levi’s, fastened with one of those gaudy Western buckles, …

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