Theric Jepson: 5 books

Isaac may have a cat named Perky Erect Nipples and he may insist that's why his story is called what it's called, but the facts are clear: he's haunted by the memory of some literal nipples, and he's headed to his high-school reunion in hopes to finally say what he should have...

Introduction on responding to Tyler Chadwick’s Field Notes on Language and Kinship Sometimes, from the first time, you know someone matters. I have no memory of knowing Tyler without expecting he would prove our generation’s most important explainer of Mormon poetry. And now, in 2015, anyone...

What if the territory of Deseret had never joined the Union and instead became its own nation? What if Leo Tolstoy or Nikola Tesla had converted to the LDS Church? What if Brigham Young had gone all the way to California instead of stopping in Utah? The genre of alternate history invites us to imagine...

A writer tries to capture his changing people in prose, but what does a Mormon look like in the 21st century? He strives to answer that question through the creation of a General Relief Society President named Meredith Kimball . . . who has some problems much more immediate and troubling than her writer's.

At one of the most conservative colleges in the country — Brigham Young University, where both angst and premarital sex are verboten — returned missionary David Them and his flamboyantly Texan roommate Curses Olai set out to pen a rock opera about the ultimate quest for the twentysomething Mormon...