The good book : writers reflect on favorite Bible passages

Book 2015

"A collection of previously unpublished pieces by 32 of today's most prominent writers shares their thoughts about biblical passages they find personally meaningful, in a volume that includes contributions by such figures as Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff and Ian Frazier, "--NoveList.

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Bible as literature

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ISBN:

9781476789972
9781476789965
1476789975
1476789967

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

Description:

xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Who is the snake in the Garden of Eden? : a thought experiment / Avi Steinberg
Noah / Charles McGrath
Abraham, Isaac, and us : (and Hagar and Ishmael and Trayvon and Michael Brown, too) / Michael Eric Dyson
My Father's commandments / Jane Leavy
He who struggles with God / Alec Wilkinson
Deuterogeniture, or How I killed my grandmother / André Aciman
The best Jew in the family / Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Come on in, the water's fine / A.J. Jacobs
Desert stories / Kathleen Norris
The book of Ruth / Lois Lowry
Why Psalms is my favorite biblical book / Reverend Al Sharpton
A reading of the Shepherd's Psalm / Lydia Davis
Guilty feet have got no rhythm / James Parker
The song of songs / Pico Iyer
The valley of dry bones / Samuel G. Freedman
The book of Jonah: a postmodern exegesis / Daniel Menaker
New moon haftorah / Robert Pinsky
The good thief / Ian Caldwell
The womb and the cistern cell / Brooks Hansen
Sermon on the mount / Jay Parini
This saying / Ian Frazier
Miracles / Thomas Lynch
Never quite as simple / Owen King
Long road home : thoughts on the prodigal son / Tobias Wolff
The beloved disciple / Colm Tóibín
The parables of Jesus of Nazareth / Rick Moody
A matter of infinity / Clyde Edgerton
The beginning of the end / Paul Elie
Resurrection / Kerry Kennedy
A voice from Heaven / Edwidge Danticat
Living on the ledge / Lauren Slater
The bad book / Robert Coover

LCCN:

2015010157

Control Number:

1600549

Other Authors:

Blauner, Andrew, editor

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