November 2011
4 posts
Happy birthday to Marilynne Robinson!
Happy birthday to Marilynne Robinson. To a writer whose prose and insight have helped shape our vision of the world, we raise our glass and wish her a wonderful day of celebration and many good things to come in the year ahead, including the new book. Cheers!
(And speaking of the new book: We’ve heard that advance review copies began arriving in mailboxes this week. Look for reviews to start...
Rowan Williams on Marilynne Robinson →
We likely needn’t say anything more than the title.
There are two possibilities here: Either you deeply admire the work of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, or you’ve never listened to the man speak. If the latter, may we kindly recommend his prefacing remarks about the royal wedding, which include this fine discussion about marriage?
“It’s a commitment that says. ‘Actually, I’m...
The Fourth Novel
The bestest of news: Marilynne Robinson has a fourth novel in the works.
She made the announcement to a gathering at the Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College back in July. Here’s what she had to say:
“I have actually started another novel, and it’s a sort of revered tradition in this setting to read from new work, and I’m not going to do it.” *laughs* “You all want my novel to live, so...
Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist →
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, he began by saying, “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” Walter Isaacson, in his recent biography about Jobs, notes that, “In a career of dazzling product presentations, this may have been his best.”
So too how we feel about today’s entry. In this month’s issue of The Nation, Marilynne Robinson...
