The good book
Subtitle: writers reflect on favorite Bible passages
By: edited by Andrew Blauner
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781476789965; 9781476789972
Subjects: Bible as literature
Description: "A collection of previously unpublished pieces by 32 of today's most prominent writers shares their thoughts about biblical passages they find personally meaningful, in a volume that includes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.
Table of contents: title: Who is the snake in the Garden of Eden? : a thought experiment  -- Avi Steinberg; title: Noah  -- Charles McGrath; title: Abraham, Isaac, and us : (and Hagar and Ishmael and Trayvon and Michael Brown, too)  -- Michael Eric Dyson; title: My Father's commandments  -- Jane Leavy; title: He who struggles with God  -- Alec Wilkinson; title: Deuterogeniture, or How I killed my grandmother  -- André Aciman; title: The best Jew in the family  -- Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts; title: Come on in, the water's fine  -- A.J. Jacobs; title: Desert stories  -- Kathleen Norris; title: The book of Ruth  -- Lois Lowry; title: Why Psalms is my favorite biblical book  -- Reverend Al Sharpton; title: A reading of the Shepherd's Psalm  -- Lydia Davis; title: Guilty feet have got no rhythm  -- James Parker; title: The song of songs  -- Pico Iyer; title: The valley of dry bones  -- Samuel G. Freedman; title: The book of Jonah: a postmodern exegesis  -- Daniel Menaker; title: New moon haftorah  -- Robert Pinsky; title: The good thief  -- Ian Caldwell; title: The womb and the cistern cell  -- Brooks Hansen; title: Sermon on the mount  -- Jay Parini; title: This saying  -- Ian Frazier; title: Miracles  -- Thomas Lynch; title: Never quite as simple  -- Owen King; title: Long road home : thoughts on the prodigal son  -- Tobias Wolff; title: The beloved disciple  -- Colm Tóibín; title: The parables of Jesus of Nazareth  -- Rick Moody; title: A matter of infinity  -- Clyde Edgerton; title: The beginning of the end  -- Paul Elie; title: Resurrection  -- Kerry Kennedy; title: A voice from Heaven  -- Edwidge Danticat; title: Living on the ledge  -- Lauren Slater; title: The bad book -- Robert Coover.