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Man Booker International prize goes to (very) short-story writer Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, known for the shortest of short stories, has won the Man Booker International prize ahead of fellow American Marilynne Robinson and eight other contenders from around the world. The £60,000 award is for a body of work, and is intended to celebrate from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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At the Frontiers of the Unsayable: Bennett Sims’s A Questionable Shape
Marilynne Robinson’s brilliant and engaging essay, “Imagination and Community,” she writes that we live on a small island that consists of what can be said, “which we tend to mistake for reality itself.” As she transforms the voices of her narrators into the from The Millions Read more »
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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 »
