February 2012
2 posts
Willow Springs interviews Marilynne Robinson →
For Christmas, my wife’s parents pre-ordered me a copy of ‘When I Was a Child I Read Books’ from my friends at the wonderful Literary Life Bookstore.
“Oh, I have something for Christian!” exclaimed Zachary, LitLife’s resident poet. Knowing that the book wouldn’t release for another four months, he handed my mother-in-law a bound copy of Willow Spring’s 58th issue to wrap up. “I’ve been saving...
Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred →
Another fine essay from the forthcoming book ‘When I Was a Child I Read Books.’ Wonderful prose is to be found throughout (as you’ve come to expect), even on the topic of a rat in a psychology lab, for goodness sake:
“Bribery was, of course, central to the experiment and no black mark against either of us, though I must say, mine was an Eliot Ness among rats for its resistance to the lure of,...
