Pastor and author Ben Dueholm drops by to talk about the value of bleak reading, the intrigue of magic, and even Lou Reed!
Episode artwork: Magician Paul LePaul, 1937. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Want to learn more about the books, authors—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Adonis Concerto al-Quds
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison
Louis Paul Boon My Little War
Joe Brainard The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
Tara Isabella Burton Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from da Vinci to the Kardashians
David Chase The Sopranos
Hélène Cixous Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang
Robertson Davies The Cornish Trilogy
Robertson Davies The Deptford Trilogy
Fredrik deBoer How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
Joan Didion "Self-Respect: Its Source, Its Power"
Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest
Michel Foucault The Archaeology of Knowledge
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'urbervilles
Will Hermes Lou Reed: The King of New York
Andrew Hineraker The Magic Play
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
John LeCarré A Perfect Spy
John LeCarré A Private Spy
John LeCarré Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy The Border Trilogy
Cormac McCarthy Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy The Road
Cormac McCarthy Stella Maris
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Toni Morrison Sula
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
George Orwell " "Politics and the English Language"
Marilynne Robinson Gilead
Marilynne Robinson Reading Genesis
Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
David Simon The Wire
Jonathan D. Spence The Death of Woman Wang
Sam Tanenhouse Whitaker Chambers: A Biography
Christian Wiman He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
Christian Wiman My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
Christian Wiman "The Preacher Addresses the Seminarians"
