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Amanda Knox: By the Book
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” by Douglas Adams, was a humorous distraction from the tension. Other books, like Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping,” were helpful because they explored themes, like loneliness and alienation, that I was having to learn to from The New York Times Read more »
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“Prodigals and Preachers”: me on Marilynne Robinson
Keywords:Art Keywords:America Keywords:fatherhood Keywords:forgiveness Keywords:Marilynne Robinson Keywords:marriage Keywords:race Keywords:reading and repentance Keywords:weapons of the spirit Portals:Catholic from Patheos Blogs Read more »
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From Marilynne Robinson, “Gilead”
German ge-. I regret that I must deprive myself of it. It takes half the point out of telling the story. Keywords:Art Keywords:Marilynne Robinson Keywords:objects in the world are words spoken by God Keywords:on beauty Keywords:words words words Portals:Catholi from Patheos Blogs Read more »
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Combining art and artifice
Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2008, alongside Marilynne Robinson (Home) and Peter Mathiessen, who won with Shadow Country. No small feat simply to have one's name printed next to those towering figures. from Bedford Public Library Read more »
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Marilynne Robinson: By the Book
The author of “Gilead” and “When I Was a Child I Read Books” says that after “Housekeeping,” her greatest fear was writing “a fraudulent book simply to escape the embarrassments of having written only one novel.” When and where do you like to read? I like from The New York Times Read more »
