Marilynne Robinson’s Singular Vision
In my experience, there are two types of Marilynne Robinson readers: 'Housekeeping' people and 'Gilead' people.
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A Supposedly Brief Interview with D.T. Max
It’s not really that David had any answers for people. But he never stops taking his life seriously and he never stops taking the reader’s life seriously. And I think that’s the connection: you never stop mattering to him and he never stops mattering to himself.
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Thinking Again: Marilynne Robinson’s When I Was a Child I Read Books
Robinson includes almost zero references to TV, movies, Facebook, celebs, or anything to do with pop culture. Her lonesome distance from the mainstream is eccentric, but it’s also what gives her essays their strange power to diagnose America’s discontents.
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