National Book Award finalist Marilynne Robinson spoke with Moyers & Company about LILA and keeping faith in democracy.
Hi, Kelly–I loved lots of new books last year! Lila by Marilynne Robinson was so beautiful. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill devastated me. Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven sucked me in for two full days and nights. Check out Colm Toibin’s Nora Webster if you want to read one of the best writers working today.
Along with confessing that he “stinks at Facebook,” Anthony Doerr gave a nice shout-out to his fellow National Book Award Finalists during his Facebook Q&A.
I think that my subject is the capacity for dignity and beauty of perception in people society does not necessarily value.
Marilynne Robinson, on writing Lila, a 2014 National Book Award Finalist. (Via)
More of our conversation with Marilynne Robinson about writing Lila, a Finalist for the 2014 National Book Award, here.
Robinson resists the notion of love as an easy antidote to a lifetime of suffering or solitude, suggesting that intimacy can’t intrude on loneliness without some measure of pain.
Leslie Jamison reviews Marilynne Robinson‘s latest novel, Lila, which was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. (via millionsmillions)
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