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Marilynne Robinson’s Absence of Mind
I am a fan of Marilynne Robinson’s writing, so I was happy to learn yesterday that her next book will arrive in 2010. It is an essay collection titled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, and it will be released by Yale University Press. It seems likely [...]
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Marilynne Robinson wins Orange Prize
Earlier this week, Marilyn Robinson won the Orange Prize for Fiction for her latest novel, Home. I am an ardent fan of Robinson’s writing, and the prize occasioned news stories about and interviews with her. Click here for The Guardian’s full coverage, including an audio interview and an extract from the book. I also admire [...]
In advance of reading Marilynne Robinson’s new novel
I eagerly await the moment when I can sit down to read Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, Home. In the meantime, the media blitz surrounding it is in full swing. Ruth Franklin, writing in the October 8 issue of The New Republic, discusses the absence of God from contemporary American fiction, places Robinson in relation to [...]
Marilynne Robinson, then and now
The contributors to Reading Room, the New York Times blog dedicated to discussing books in depth, are currently focusing their energies upon Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel Housekeeping. Click here for the moderator’s introductory post.
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Robinson at DePaul University in Chicago. She read two essays, one [...]
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
At the train station in Malmö, Sweden, I picked up the Virago paperback edition of Gilead, Marilyn Robinson’s “demanding, grave, and lucid” 2004 novel. (It was published by FSG in the US.) There was a twenty-three-year gap between this book and Housekeeping, her 1981 debut, and, as many commentators have noted, it was worth the [...]
