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The Corner (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels--NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here . It's an excellent discussion, full of useful suggestions and a few debates. I'd like to extend the conversation a bit. I'm curious for opinions about several books. Do they belong on a list of great conservative novels? Arguments for and against are welcome. Gilead, by...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland Writing is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's the first impression you get from this fourth anthology of interviews with authors about their art, which are arranged chronologically from William Styron in 1954 to Marilynne Robinson in 2008. "Let's...
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33 1/3 (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Many congratulations to Carl Wilson - his book for the series on Celine Dion has made it on to Paste magazine's list of the 20 Best Books of the Decade. If you haven't read it yet, perhaps this might nudge you over the cliff. 20. Chuck Klosterman - Killing Yourself to Live 19. Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point 18. Donald Miller - Blue Like Jazz 17. Carl Wilson - Let's Talk About Love 16. Joseph...
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<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
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...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
A reader writes: 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,...
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The Orange Prize Project (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
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,...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson was the selection for my book club this month. I am really enjoying it. It is very well-written. Robinson describes deep appreciation for life and living through the precious memories of an aging man who is facing his last days with a lot of ...
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Faith and Theology (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
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...
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About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
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...
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Little Epic Against Oblivion (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
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...
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The Mumpsimus (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
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...
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Zoomtard (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
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 [...]
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
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.
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
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: … [...]
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
... Marilynne Robinson . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The assumption is that forgiveness is owed wherever God might want forgiveness to be given, and we don’t know, so you err on the side of forgiving. You assume your fallibility, and you also assume that anybody that you encounter is precious to God—or is God himself. What about Michael Servetus ?
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