What are you afraid of? That’s what Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson asks writers who shy away from writing about faith.
The beloved author has won accolades after writing so openly about belief, but it remains a subject few other writers take on.
“It’s courageous of Robinson to write about faith at a time when associations with religion are so often negative and violent,” Diane Johnson wrote in her New York Times review of Robinson’s latest book, “Lila,” which was released Tuesday (Oct. 7).
Being a Midwesterner her stories and characters seems familiar to me and evoke in me a longing for Home. This interview helps me understand that special effect a bit better.
Her reading of Calvin is interesting and humane and I want to believe them to be true.