Joseph Bottum and America’s Anxious Age – Part 2
In the second part of my conversation with Joseph Bottum about his book An Anxious Age we focus on the future. If Bottum's description of American history is r...
Year: 2014
Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say
Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say
Joseph Bottum and America's Anxious Age – Part 1
Part one of a conversation with Joseph Bottum, author of An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America, about American Religious History a...
Writer's Block, Book Burnout and Podcasts
I periodically get in funks where nothing quite seems to "work" for me and I find myself reading three or four books at one time looking for something that will...
Carl Hoffman talks about Savage Harvest at Evenings with Authors Event
I was prepared for a somewhat brief introduction of the book and what led to its being written followed by a reading. But instead what Hoffman presented was mo...
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We: A dystopian novel for the 21st century
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: A dystopian novel for the 21st century