<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Here's today's quote from a sane liberal. An email to Daily Dish : I've been reading Marilynne Robinson's book of essays, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought . Her essay entitled “Puritans and Prigs” sets out to defend the Puritans and contrast them to a group she calls prigs, the sort of politically correct thought police that the right used to rail against in the 1990s. I think...
The Orange Prize Project (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Home By Marilynne Robinson Completed October 11, 2009 Home , the 2009 Orange Prize Winner by Marilynne Robinson, was an alternate story to Gilead . While Gilead was a love letter from Reverend John Ames to his son, Robby, Home was the story about Ames’ best friend, Robert Boughton, and his family. It was a clever look at both families, and the peak at small-town life reminded me a bit of Winesburg,...
Faith and Theology (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Bernd Wannenwetsch, ed., Who Am I? Bonhoeffer's Theology Through His Poetry (T&T Clark 2009), 259 pp. (thanks to T&T Clark for a copy) I've been waiting eagerly for this book, and I wasn't disappointed. An impressive range of scholars – including Oliver O'Donovan, Stanley Hauerwas, Bernd Wannenwetsch, Hans Ulrich, Brian Brock, Philip Ziegler, and others – offer theological readings...
About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Over at The Millions , C. Max Magee and company are taking the literary pulse of the 21st Century by listing The Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far) . Though admittedly premature, this list of twenty books was in fact discerned not only by contributors from The Millions, but also a respectable panel of 48 writers, editors, and critics, who were all asked a single question, "What are the best...
Little Epic Against Oblivion (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Despite both the amusing image of Gob Bluth and the catchy glam rock melody of Europe's song "Final Countdown" that come to mind, I'm sad to say that, as of yet, The Millions has not posted the complete list of "The Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far)." I guess it'll happen later today, but since I'll be in the throes of my poetry comprehensive exam, I may not post the final...
The Mumpsimus (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
The Millions polled a bunch of writers to come up with a fun list of really good books : It’s a bit early, of course, to pass definitive judgment on the literary legacy of the ’00s, or how it stacks up against that of the 1930s, or 1850s. Who knows what will be read 50 years from now? But, with the end of the decade just a few months away, it seemed to us at The Millions a good time to...
Zoomtard (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Marilynne Robinson was asked by a PBS journalist “As one who sometimes has trouble with this himself, and I know a lot of people who do, too, I would be interested in hearing about why you believe in God”. I know this might not seem like the best answer in the world, but I do not not [...]
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Read here, in the University of Washington’s alumni magazine, about how Marilynne Robinson approaches a book’s essence as “an elaborate needlepoint of decisions and observations”; how novels visit upon her as surprises; and how her recent move to New York might spawn yet another gift to readers.
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
I wonder how many of these books are available as ebooks. Maybe our readers can check it out. So far they have released numbers 18 – 20. They are: 20 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 19 American Genius, a Comedy, by Lynne Tillman 18 Stranger Things Happen, by Kelly Link Here’s what they say about the list: … [...]
Out of the Woods Now (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
From a recent interview with Marilynne Robinson: Q: In your essay on Psalm Eight in The Death of Adam you wrote, “So I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes.” I think it’s very central to appreciating what you’ve been doing in your work. A: Well, yes. I read things like theology, and I read about...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
The book’s modest, carefully planed language and its concern with primary human needs make it timeless.
Byrnesys Blabberings (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
An ode to loneliness, beautiful, cold prose dedicated to introspection.
gaskella (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
... no, not the book by Marilynne Robinson , just a rounding up of bookish things, as later in the week, it's my first blogbirthday! I've been trying to be good and actually get rid of some books recently (inspired by Scott's efforts over at Me and my big mouth ). I've not ditched as many as he has, but I am keeping quietly at it. I took a bag of trashy thrillers to the charity shop - there is a place...
Chicks Dig Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Why is it that when I have the most things to report...I fall off the blogging beam? For that matter, the best parties are the ones of which I have the fewest photographs. * Tomorrow I'll travel to New York and meet with my editor at Crown before the Boog City reading. It'll be a chance to get feedback on the first portion of the nonfiction book--correcting the course, if needed, before I stray too...
clusterflock (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Our friend Melinda, who lives in Portland, OR where this novel is set, gave me this book recently and I just read it this weekend. It’s splendid. As I read I found myself thinking of several other books that share aspects of its tone and approach: Kaye Gibbons’s Ellen Foster; Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping; and Russell [...]
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