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Steps to Parnassus (John Crowley Little and Big)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:11:52 GMT

Maybe it's too early to announce (though of course I can always announce again) but I will be reading at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City on September 25, along with Marilynne Robinson; we'll both (I think) be reading from not-yet-published books, so it should be worth a trip uptown or crosstown or downtown for anyone interested in either of us. Speaking of not-yet-published books,...

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What is Nalini Jones reading? (Campaign for the American Reader)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:23:00 GMT

The latest featured contributor to Writers Read: Nalini Jones, author of What You Call Winter. One paragraph from her entry:I’ve recently finished Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, a strange and haunting novel about two sisters growing up near a lake in which both their mother and their grandfather have been lost. Her sentences have the clarity of lake water, cold and pure and perfect,...

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Thread: 6090597435374660551. Post by Doghouse Riley (Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com)

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:20:56 GMT

Of all the people that could make one a Christian--Mother Teresa, Martin Luther, Marilynne Robinson, Christ--Rod Dreher credits some Nietzsche-obsessed underclassman douchebag. Not to mention that he credits his Orthodox rebranding to the dismaying prospect of having to make small talk with liberal members of his old flock. Which, incidentally, and I'm no expert, but doesn't his curre...

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When is a sign from God? (Crunchy Con)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:20:29 GMT

I was re-reading Marilynne Robinson's luminous 2004 novel "Gilead" on the plane the other day, and ran across a passage that made me wonder about something. The novel is written in the form of a book-length letter from an aged...

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Idaho’s daughter, Marilynne Robinson (BookClubClassics.com)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:01:06 GMT

... what do you think? This week’s selection is a perfect example of the above dilemma. I have chosen Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping , (set in the town of Fingerbone, Idaho), even though she has spent much of her life in Iowa, where her Pulitzer prize winning Gilead was set. So, maybe I should choose her twice! photo credit: BY-YOUR-⌘ According to Seattlepi.com : Not only is regionalism...

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‘The Transit of Venus’ by Shirley Hazzard (Heraclitean Fire)

Tue, 27 May 2008 16:39:39 GMT

Like Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, I bought this on the basis of a Bryan Appleyard article where he mentioned Hazzard as one of his contenders for greatest living novelist; in fact, he entertained the possibility that The Transit of Venus was ‘the most perfect novel written in the past 100 years'. I was less taken by this one [...]

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Reading “Gilead” :: peer-see (Chinalyst - China blogs in English)

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:07:00 GMT

I just finished reading “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson. It's not available for sale here in Qingdao, few English titles are, so my copy came in a care package. I don't remember whether it was my mom or our friends Will and Gena who sent it, but I want to thank whomever it was. This book is beautiful. I loved every page. Now that I have finished the book, I want Josh to read it so that...

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Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (Per Crucem ad Lucem)

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:29:51 GMT

Having thoroughly enjoyed Marilynne Robinson's Gilead some time ago, I’ve finally gotten around to ordering a copy of her Housekeeping. What spurred this huge plunge of a couple of pounds (33p +p/h) was this fan letter to Robinson posted in Sunday's New York Times. Here’s a snippert: There is something so familiar (and familial) in your [...]

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Fallible human voices (Out of the Woods Now)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:26:00 GMT

The 92nd Street Y blog has a video clip of Robert Alter and Marilynne Robinson discussing the former's recent translation of The Book of Psalms (the viewing of which immediately improved the quality of my day): Aside from the interesting discussion of translation and the structure of Hebrew poetry, I was captivated by what Robinson had to say about the writers of the Bible: They...

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Video: The Psalms with Robert Alter and Marilynne Robinson (92Y Blog)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:35:39 GMT

Biblical scholar and Hebrew Studies professor Robert Alter, who has received considerable praise from The New Yorker , appeared at the Y in December 2007 for a reading and conversation on “The Psalms” ( previously reviewed here ) with Marilynne Robinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner Gilead . In the video clip above, Alter describes how the English language fails to reproduce the...

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‘Housekeeping’ by Marilynne Robinson (Heraclitean Fire)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:00:06 GMT

I bought Housekeeping because of an article at the end of last year where Bryan Appleyard made some suggestions of great artists working today. One of his two greatest living novelists was Marilynne Robinson; I don't always find myself in sympathy with Appleyard, but with a recommendation like that it seemed worth a punt. It is [...]

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Sacks on Robinson (Conversational Reading)

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:10:00 GMT

Over at Open Letters Monthly, Sam Sacks gives us an excellent fresh look at Marilynne Robinson: An entire novel of impressionistic metaphors, no matter how beautiful, would be difficult to read – would, in all likelihood, vanish from memory like a dream upon waking. But two things give Housekeeping the ballast to, if not ground it, suspend it in a graceful levitation. For one thing, perhaps...

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