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Books by Marilynne Robinson mentioned on podcasts
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel, Gilead, is a profound meditation on faith, family history, and grace, told through the extended letter of an aging Congregationalist minister to his young son.
Recommended“One of my favorite books is Gilead by Marilyn Robinson.”
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson is a celebrated debut novel that explores themes of grief, transience, and the profound, haunting isolation experienced by two orphaned sisters raised by eccentric relatives in a remote Idaho town.
Discussed“one of my favorite words from my fave rave writer teacher friend Marilyn Robinson that's in her first novel housekeeping is co-extensivity I just thought what if I just don't think of there being any difference between the interior or the exterior”
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Reading Genesis
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson is a deeply contemplative non-fiction work in which the esteemed author offers a theological and literary interpretation of the biblical Book of Genesis.
Recommended“today I'm talking with Marilyn Robinson one of America's best and best known writers she is also a non-fiction essayist and now she has a new book out called reading Genesis by Marilyn Robinson which I recommend highly”
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Tinkers
Tinkers by Paul Harding is a critically acclaimed debut novel that explores memory, mortality, and the life of a dying clockmaker.
Discussed“I interviewed Paul Harding who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his very first novel called Tinkers.”
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Jack
Jack by Marilynne Robinson is a powerful novel exploring race, religion, and redemption within the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa.
Recommended“my pick is Jack by Marilyn Robinson which was a bit of a polarizing book but one I I loved a lot”
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Lila
Discussed“Marilyn Robinson for Lyla and Tyler for a spool of blue thread that came out this year”
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Mother country
Discussed“your very first book which is called mother country it's about nuclear pollution in Great Britain why did you write that book many people are surprised when they learn that's a book of yours”
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