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Enjoying the Work of God: Patty Kirk
Patty Kirk's Christian equation used to look like this: Duty + Guilt = Spiritual Value.
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The Wisdom of Islam: Jamal Rahman
Imam Jamal Rahman describes the spiritual life as a quest to become "a more complete human being."
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Everyday Spirituality: Mary Hayes Grieco
Two decades ago, when she published The Kitchen Mystic, (Hazeldon, 1992), Mary Hayes Grieco got the feeling it was a book that would be with her for a long time.
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Helping the Living Help the Dying: David Swanson
For David Swanson, Everlasting Life (Baker Books, June) is the book he's always wanted to write. As senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Fla., he's been in many situations involving dying and grieving people.
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One Mother to Another: Caryn Rivadeneira
Caryn Rivadeneira has had her struggles as a mother of three. She's been short-tempered, locked herself in a room to avoid the kids, and stood by and watched while her child had a major meltdown. Haven't we all?
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American Classic: Philipp Meyer
The Son, Philipp Meyer's epic American multigenerational second novel, out this June from Ecco.
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Writing What She Knows: Jeannette Walls
It’s easy to dispense with the usual formalities with Jeannette Walls. Even upon first meeting, Walls, 53, feels like an old friend. Our interaction is not so much a formal interview, but, rather, a lively conversation about her new novel, The Silver Star (Scribner, June).
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Poetry Profiled 2013
These four poets cross (and break across) all kinds of lines, joining personal and public history and traditional and experimental styles.
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Where Is Peter Hessler?
In 2006, Peter Hessler was in Beijing coming off the success of National Book Award–finalist Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present (HarperCollins, 2006), his second book about China.
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Pessimist? Not Really…Charles Simic
For Charles Simic—one of America’s most famous poets, a former poetry editor of the Paris Review and former U.S. Poet Laureate, and perhaps one of the best-known poets writing in English—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s publication of New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 is an especially powerful event; until now, US readers had to buy two “selected poems” volumes, one from Braziller representing Simic’s early poems and another from Harcourt, gathering poems from Simic’s books since the mid-80s.
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Close to Home: NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names (Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur Books, May 21) is set in a government sponsored program of forced relocation.
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Past, Present: Gail Godwin
Gail Godwin has been keeping a journal since she was 12. And she’s still writing daily entries today, 18 books and more than 60 years later.
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This is What Democracy Looks Like: David Graeber
As a political philosophy, anarchism encompasses much more than this clichéd stereotype.
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Shocking Pink Is the New Black: Patricia Volk
Patricia Volk believes that everyone has read a transformative book, usually encountered just before the onset of adolescence.
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The Role of a Lifetime: Nia Vardalos
For actress, writer, and director Nia Vardalos, her greatest achievement was adopting a daughter in 2008.
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Maureen Johnson: The Queen of Teen
YA writer Maureen Johnson has had a very good decade.
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A Loving Tribute: Maurice Sendak on 'My Brother's Book'
Editor Michael di Capua is talking about My Brother's Book, Maurice Sendak's final work, as he looks through the folder he kept for the project.
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Just Saying “Yes”: Joyce Carol Oates
One frigid night last January, a diminutive woman in a full-length down coat and decidedly feminine hat raced across the train tracks to the lot where her car was parked.
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Religion Update February 2013: In Profile
Profiles of six notable religion authors with new books coming this spring.
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Religion Update February 2013: Morality and Satire: Erin McGraw
In her newest novel, Better Food for a Better World (Wipf and Stock/Slant), Erin McGraw says she continues to delve into the theme of what it takes to be a good person. But this time she uses a new approach: satire.
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