"Only in times of crisis does spiritual growth become possible." written by Jay Parini in his review "The Spiritual Autobiography of Christian Wiman" in Chronicle of Higher Education in which he writes about Christian Wiman's new book, My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer. … [Read more...]
October news– T. C. Boyle, Carol Kanter, Wally Swist, Susan Mahan and more
T. C. Boyle's fourteenth novel was published in September by Viking. It is called San Miguel and on his blog, the author describes it this way: “It is set on the island of the same name, the most northern and westerly of the California Channel Islands, and the story it tells derives from my research into the ecology and history of the region for my previous novel, When the Killing’s Done. . . . This is my first book-length narrative in the conventional realist mode, sans … [Read more...]