Nonfiction
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader, Oxford University Press
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader (2024)
Two chapters, “LDS Artists and the Art Students League of New York” and “George Dibble and Modernism in Utah” and the co-authored Foreword (with Richard Lyman Bushman) in the 22-chapter volume published by Oxford University Press
“Wartime in Kershisnikland” (2024)
Essay in the museum exhibition catalog, The Difficult Part, Brian Kershisnik: A Mid-career Retrospective, BYU Museum of Art
John Held, Jr.’s Fiction (2023)
Book published by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts and issued to conjunction with John Held, Jr. at the Center Gallery, and reissued 2024
UMOCA: Contemporary Since 1931 (2022)
Institutional history co-authored with Maddie Blonquist Shrum, commissioned and published online by the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Daniel George: God to Go West (2019)
Exhibition catalog
Published on the occasion of the exhibition “God to Go West” with plates, essay, interview and exhibition checklist
“Mormon Artists Group: A Story, Confession, and Valediction” (2018)
Essay
Posted on Facebook, a summary and possible farewell
Hildebrando de Melo: Nzambi (God) (2018)
Exhibition catalog
“Introduction,” essay, “Out of Angola,” “Interview,” plates with narrative descriptions, exhibition history, and checklist
Published by Mormon Arts Center on the occasion of the exhibition Nzambi (God) at the Mormon Arts Center Festival 2018
Joseph Paul Vorst: Lithographs (2018)
Exhibition catalog
Published by Writ & Vision, essay “The Prints of Joseph Paul Vorst,” “Interview: Vorst’s Lithographs in Context” (Brad Kramer and Glen Nelson), “The Lithographs” (analysis and documentation of every known American print), and exhibition checklist
Joseph Paul Vorst (2017)
Biography and monograph
Published by Mormon Artists Group with funding by the Church History Museum
Biography of the artist, the first book-length volume about Vorst, published to coincide with the retrospective of Vorst at the Church History Museum
Annie Poon: The Split House (2016)
Exhibition catalog
Published by Writ & Vision gallery, essay “Bringing the Dead to Life: The Alchemy of Stop Motion Animation,” interview “Black and White: Annie Poon,” plates, exhibition history, and checklist
Mormon Composers: We’ll Make the Air with Music Ring (2016)
Book-length history of Latter-day Saint composers from 1830 to the present, unpublished
Big and weighty manuscript attempting to tell the complete and global story of LDS composers (1600+ composers, 50,000+ compositions)
Casey Jex Smith: Wars and Rumors of Wars (2015)
Exhibition catalog
Published by Writ and Vision gallery, essay “Playing at War,” interview “Drawing Details,” plates, exhibition history, and checklist
Nonfiction book
Published by the Reading Reform Foundation of New York, co-author (with Sandra Priest Rose) of a book describing the teaching of reading in inner-city New York City public schools
Mormons at the Met (2012)
Nonfiction book
Published by Mormon Artists Group, with illustrations by Annie Poon. Memoir-like chronicle of a year attending the Metropolitan Opera following twelve LDS singers in the company, along with historical connections and personal asides; limited edition and commercial edition
Ghostwritten books (2001-2024)
Whether by signed nondisclosure agreement or gentlemen’s agreement, I’ll not provide the titles of the 15 books I’ve ghostwritten other than to say that they have been commercially published by University of Utah Press, John Wiley & Sons, The Free Press, Gibbs Smith, Crown Publishing Group, self-published by the organizations and individuals involved, and published by professional associations that commissioned the book. Three of them have been New York Times bestsellers, the most recent bestseller in 2015. These titles are all nonfiction books.
Fashionology: Where Do Clothes Come From? (1996)
Nonfiction book, unpublished
Book about the histories of common fashion products and the origin stories of notable brands, with watercolor illustrations by Beth Rawlinson
Joyce, Ulysses and Operatic Literature (1988)
M.A. thesis, New York University
Analysis of the opening pages of the “Circe” section of Ulysses and how the text scans as if it were intended to be sung using opera music quoted in the novel