conor hilton

A depiction of a small crowd, with fists raised, chanting in front of Pontius Pilate. Behind him is Barabbas, half naked, chained to centurions.

i often think of how Frank Frazetta — maybe the greatest scifi/fantasy artist to ever do it, the guy who single-handedly defined the whole swords-and-sorcery aesthetic — also did this moving sketch titled "Give Us Barabbas."

Friendly reminder that Condé Nast workers are on strike until midnight EST tonight. Don't click on or share links from Condé Nast pubs! This includes

-Vogue/Teen Vogue
-Them
-GQ
-Bon Appétit
-Vanity Fair
-Self
-Architectural Digest
-Glamour
-Epicurious
-Allure

(Wired & New Yorker are a diff union)

the book is SO GOOD, and i'm truly thrilled about the way you highlight 'many mormonisms' throughout. can't wait for more folks to read it!!!

Park, “American Zion: A New History of Mormonism” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton) - Dawning of a Brig... Ben Park’s American Zion: A New History of Mormonism is a monumental achievement.

"Ben Park’s American Zion: A New History of Mormonism is a monumental achievement."

Very grateful for this Association for Mormon Letters review of my book, which captures my attempt at showing "many Mormonisms." www.associationmormonletters.org/reviews/curr...

great guys right here

yes yes yes!!! a great title and still, cannot contain my excitement for this!

Very excited to be here to announce my forthcoming book, _Lusting for Kinship: Queering the Mormon Cosmos_ expected late 2024/early 2025! @uncpress

love this--'forsaken' is so great haha

Screenshot of a macOS Finder window with folders named Current, Finished, Forsaken, Incubating, and Paused

Over the past couple years I've let my file management habits atrophy big time, with random folders and git repos all over my computer, so I finally consolidated everything and I'm happy with this categorization

Birthday cake with a guillotine and corresponding cupcake heads

with @faineg.bsky.social’s guillotine discourse, I just remembered this birthday cake my then-13-yo made in 2020, complete with cupcake heads

The Unseating of Dr. Smoot The Unseating of Dr. Smoot takes the typical structure of a Mormon Sunday meeting (sacramement meeting) and uses it to tell the story of Dr. Rebecca Smoot, an academic who visits Provo, Utah, after a ...

My new novella is out today. This is aimed towards college-educated liberal Mormons & unlike much of my Mormon-centric work isn’t weird/genre fiction. It’s lit fic. It’s about academic disappointments & the pull of home & Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels, so ymmv: motleyvision.org/unseating-of...

Friends, I’m teaching my television class again this spring. So I have to ask the media studies peeps: what’s your favorite piece of television criticism, ever? Favorite critic to look into, old or new? Looking especially for older pieces 🙏🏻

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009)

Max and all the Wild Things. God, this movie looked incredible.

James Gandolfini as Carol, the main Wild Thing. We miss you, king!!!

What a voice cast. In addition to Gandolfini, you've got Paul Dano, Chris Cooper, Catherine O'Hara and Forest Whitaker!

we failed this movie so hard. closest america ever got to its own Miyazaki.

Come, Lord Jesus An Advent Invitation

an advent invitation from the wonderful cece proffit! absolutely worth a few minutes of your time today to think about how to honor/celebrate/worship this advent season

www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/come-lord-...

loved this! has me thinking about BLUEY as a model of utopian storytelling and how i could draw on it for some of my own utopian fic efforts

(and of course, hit hard in the feels with the reflections on trying to be more present for kids and my own wrestles with that)

This Essay on Bluey is Called "For Real Life" There is no bad Bluey. Every episode is just as good as every other one, which is to say: basically perfect.

New today:

"BLUEY shows the world at its best. It’s not an impossible standard. It’s something to aspire to: basically perfect art about a world of realistically imperfect characters striving to be a little better one day at a time."

-@ethanwarren.bsky.social

(plus: an audio version, too!)

A Grand Yuletide Theory: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol

- @ethanwarren.bsky.social

(art by Brianna Ashby)

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/12/20/a...

Bro. Bro. Listen! Bro, shit is turning, bro, turning in the widening gyre, man.
The falcon, dude, cannot hear the fuckin falconer, I swear it's true bro,
Things fall apart man; the centre? The center cannot fuckin hold bro, not even a little bit
It's just anarchy, bro, loosed upon the world, man

hello it is Transgender Awareness Week! I am trans and I wrote a trans book. You can buy it if you want. Or show it to a friend. Or simply admire the cover art and contemplate your stay on this planet, and then make some art about that 🌱 be aware!!

Chart showing 4,125 average monthly child deaths in gaza

The Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza is reportedly killing children at a rate unprecedented in 21st-century conflict, according to data www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

2023's bday wishes from me to all of you:

1. Make a little peace (could make a BIG peace, but that feels a lil' overly ambitious)
2. Watch/read/listen to something you’ve been longing to check out forever
3. Tell an artist/writer/creative/filmmaker you appreciate their work and why!

2023's bday wishes from me to all of you:

1. Make a little peace (could make a BIG peace, but that feels a lil' overly ambitious)
2. Watch/read/listen to something you’ve been longing to check out forever
3. Tell an artist/writer/creative/filmmaker you appreciate their work and why!

New promotional posters from Norton/Liveright.

Only two months till release.

When I die, please take every unfinished story, poem and article on my hard drive and combine them into one massive, intricately interconnected work that aggrieved English majors will be forced to analyze for years to come.

Use all the one-line story ideas in my phone as footnotes. Just anywhere.

I agree with what @jbouie.bsky.social said yesterday: If you decide not to release something and you take a tax write-off, it should pass into the public domain, since effectively the public has now subsidized it and you are claiming you can’t make money from it anyway.

yessssssss