Book · 2004 · award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2004
Gilead
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Marilyn Robinson is one of the great living novelists her book Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 200 five it is easily among my favorite novels if you have not read it you really should.
Ezra Klein · The Ezra Klein Show · Mar 2024 Listen at 0:22 What they say about it
- Calls it a favorite“my favorite book”3
- Cites memorable quotes“a really beautiful quote”3
The best things said about it
One of my favorite books is Gilead by Marilyn Robinson.
There's a really beautiful quote in the book Gilead about this uh by Marilyn Robinson which is I think my favorite book and it it's all the book is this letter of an older man to his young son and he says you see how it is Godlike to love the being of someone.
Ezra Klein The Ezra Klein Show · Dec 2024 I love Gilead by Marian Robinson. It's not vacation reading.
Gilead I think is very much this way it's very much a constant reminder to see what is around you.
Ezra Klein The Ezra Klein Show · Mar 2024 Where and when it comes up
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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. The book is frequently recommended and discussed on podcasts for its exquisite prose and spiritual depth. Mitch Albom praised the work on How I Write as a masterclass in humility and the beauty of writing about faith. Ezra Klein has repeatedly celebrated the novel on The Ezra Klein Show, designating it as his favorite book and highlighting passages that capture the wonder of human existence and the joy of a child's being. Russ Roberts shared his admiration for the novel on EconTalk, while noting that its reflective nature makes it less suited for casual vacation reading. On The Book Review, John Williams discussed the novel in the context of Marilynne Robinson's later literary productivity, while Mark Vanhoenacker quoted lines from the book in his own writing to emphasize the singular nature of daily life. Ezra Klein further explored the novel's themes during an extended interview with Robinson, praising the book as a constant reminder to practice attentiveness to the beauty surrounding everyday human experience. Through these discussions, commentators consistently return to Robinson's work as a towering achievement in modern American fiction.
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Ezra Klein there's a really beautiful quote in the book Gilead about this uh by Marilyn Robinson which is I think my f… 4
“there's a really beautiful quote in the book Gilead about this uh by Marilyn Robinson which is I think my favorite book and it it's all the book is this letter of an older man to his young son and he says you see how it is Godlike to love the being of someone”
“Marilyn Robinson is one of the great living novelists her book Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 200 five it is easily among my favorite novels if you have not read it you really should”
“um Gilead I think is very much this way it's very much uh a constant reminder to see what is around you”
“this reminds me of of my favorite line from you which is a a line from John Ames and and Gilead the who he's the main character in that in that book but there's also my favorite line written by anybody”
Mitch Albom One of my favorite books is Gilead by Marilyn Robinson. 1
“One of my favorite books is Gilead by Marilyn Robinson.”
John Williams Marilyn Robinson who published her first novel I think it was 1988 and then I think it was 16 or 17 years l… 1
“Marilyn Robinson who published her first novel I think it was 1988 and then I think it was 16 or 17 years later that she published Gilead and then has kind of interestingly become uh prolific since then and has published three other novels since Gilead”
Mark Vanhoenacker and there's this great uh quote uh from Gilead by by Marilyn Robinson which I use in the book where she uh… 1
“and there's this great uh quote uh from Gilead by by Marilyn Robinson which I use in the book where she uh she talks about there only being one day”
Russ Roberts Just to take an example, uh I love Gilead by uh Marian Robinson. It's not vacation reading. 1
“Just to take an example, uh I love Gilead by uh Marian Robinson. It's not vacation reading.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I've R and Gilead I've R Marilyn Robinson's book”
“You may remember that Marilyn Robinson did something similar after she won the peiter prize for Gilead”