Archive for April 17th, 2008
I didn’t think I’d ever read a Christian novel again – not after receiving a B.A. in English from Calvin College and realizing that the Christian romance novels I’d read as a teenager weren’t all that, hmmm, great.
But I have to say that part of me misses them, or at least the enjoyment derived from [...]
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Tags: Christian fiction, Christian literature, Davis Bunn, Francine Rivers
Chabon
(Cross posted by Danny on I’ve Only Been Wrong Twice)
I have to admit: Michael Chabon was one of the main draws for me to come to this year’s Festival of Faith and Writing. He’s been a huge… not influence, but inspiration, of mine for the last few years. His ability to make heroes of out [...]
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Tags: Festival of Faith & Writing, Keynote, Michael Chabon
Reflections on Mischa Berlinski
So, here are some initial reflections on the talk today by Mischa Berlinski at the Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin College ….
First, I was a wee bit amazed at the number of people that came to hear him. It was a drop-dead gorgeous spring afternoon in Michigan today — sunny, a robin’s-egg [...]
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Tags: anthropology, Fieldwork, journalism, martyrs, Mischa Berlinski, Tom Wolfe
A couple of weeks ago, I ran into Ed Ericson in the Hiemenga library lobby and quickly pulled him into the conversation I was having with a student I was interviewing. I let her know (while reminding him) that perhaps his greatest claim to fame at Calvin — alongside his ponderous and vital scholarship on [...]
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Tags: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ed Ericson, Russian literature
At 10:30 this morning local high school students gathered to ask questions of Yann Martel, author of (the apparently popular high school English text) Life of Pi.
Many questions focused earnestly on details from the book — ex. “What is the significance of the meerkat?” But a particularly interesting question came towards the end of [...]
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Tags: agnosticism, meerkat, Yann Martel
