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For Independent Booksellers Day, The Tribune talks to five booksellers about how they provide not just reading material but a sense of community.

Curt Bench, an independent bookstore owner who specialized in collecting and dealing rare Latter-day books and who was an associate of Mark Hofmann early in his career, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 68.

How an accidental historian won over critics and shed light on two of Mormonism’s darkest hours (Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Richard Turley holds one of Joseph Smiths personal documents during a news conference to announce a release in the "Joseph Smith Papers" project in 2013. Turley recently retired. | Updated: March 4, 2021, 3:33 p.m. It was 1986, a dark time for Mormon historians. Just months earlier, infamous document collector Mark Hofmann had forged his way into the market ...

Deseret News Share this story Ravell Call, Deseret News . Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox weekly. Netflix is about to release a new, three-part true crime documentary about the 1985 Mark Hofmann forgeries and murders provocatively titled “Murder Among the Mormons.” The series about the chaos created in Salt Lake City by Hofmann’s fake documents and packaged bombs will begin streaming March 3, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A master forger, Hofmann is serving a life s...