A collection of links from through out the week, GR style.
Real life stories (and happily abandoned book proposals)
(Cross-posted by Allison Graff from Thoughts on Faith and Writing)
So we just spent three long days talking about stories. We talked about them, we lived them, we thought up new ones to write later. It was good to be with so many others who understand the importance of stories.
The Festival of Faith & Writing is […]
Diary of a Festival: Day 3
And now we come to the end. Festival 2008 is officially concluded. Retrospective comments will undoubtedly be forthcoming, but this will be my last dispatch from the field. I hope the freshness of these reports has been worth their jumbled telling!
There were no earthquakes last night, unlike Thursday overnight—a detail I forgot to mention yesterday […]
Acedia…so what?
(Cross-posted by Allison from Thoughts on Faith and Writing)
I remember shopping in a bookstore in Moscow several years back and picking up an English-language book called Twelve Stories of Russia, A Novel: I Guess. I couldn’t help but buy the book because nothing can be more interesting to an American living in Russia than a […]
My (New) Friend Yann
Yann Martel is a dream interview, and a fun, unpretentious guy. Right before his big Baron Lecture with at least 1,100 people in attendance his feet, pointed together like a little boy too anxious to be up and about captured his spirit perfectly.
Then, when the introductory speaker misspoke & said Life of Pi was his […]
Diary of a Festival: Day 2
A second day of literary immersion has drawn to a close. More sunshine. More handshaking. More exercising of body and mind as I sprint to the next session while ruminating on the last one. At some point on the meandering path between the college and the seminary, I told my husband that I could do […]
Lockerbie stuck with me
Having the time to sit and think, digest, and spew, I’m taking this moment to write to you from my living room regarding yesterday’s showing of The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort. Full disclosure, I studied an extensive amount of Theatre when I attended Calvin. I had Stephanie Sandberg as my directing professor. I […]
Earthquake!
Greetings Readers!
I’m coming to you from day two at the Festival of Faith and Writing. It’s been quite the ride thus far. That’s the only explanation I have for what may have caused the 5.1 earthquake felt this morning in Grand Rapids. On a personal note, I woke up horizontal to my normal way of […]
Book recs from the stars
(Cross-posted by Ashleigh on Thoughts on Faith and Writing)
At the “Literary Fiction: A Place for Faith?” panel this morning, the discussants offered these book recommendations:
Ingrid Hill: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro; Saturday, Ian McEwan
Beena Kamlani: Wolf Totem, Jiang Rong
Jana Reiss: After This, Alice McDermott; The Ladies’ Auxillary, Tova Mirvis
Vinita Hampton Wright: A Thousand Splendid […]
Graphalogia
Comics changing the age of illustration.
