I got my master’s degree in literature at a university in Nebraska, which means that I came of age, intellectually, in an environment in which Willa Cather was seen as…

Home: A Novel By Toni Morrison. 147 pp. Knopf. $24. “The past is never dead,” wrote William Faulkner in his late play Requiem for a Nun. “It’s not even past.”…

Faith In Writing: Essays In Honor Of Jack L. Knowles I’ve now seen photos in which Jack is holding this book, so I can announce it without ruining the surprise.…

General Introduction – Where’s Grubbs? – Tornados in Kansas – Pronouncing Karamazov – Translations Historicize! – Dostoevsky’s last novel – Biographical information – Connections to previous work The Brothers –…

General Introduction – Disappointing David Grubbs – Listener feedback – Stroking and broking the ego – (Yeah, my math is off) – A correction – Theologico et Ratio Translations –…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – Who’s listening? – What’s on the blog? – Formatting a dissertation The Patience of Job – The patience of Job? – Gregory the Great…

General Introduction – Talking weather – Listener feedback The Roots of the Episode – Who studies the Alamo? – Davids Grubbs, Crockett, and Bowie – Stories, not definitions The Courage…

Girlchild: A Novel By Tupelo Hassman 277 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $24. In her debut novel, Girlchild, the improbably named Tupelo Hassman tells the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix,…

General Introduction – What’s not on the blog? – Thus begins the triptych of spring 2012 New Testament Humility – The ethics of humility – The Golden Rule, further –…

General Introduction – Welcome back, Professor Grubbs! – Welcome back, respectability! – How did Nathan blog so much? What Is Romanticism? – Not the sentimental relationship – Not the genre…

General Introduction – Still in the decimels – Grubbs and the yearbook Who Is Philip Cary? – And who designed his book cover? – Eastern University – Anxiety and the…

General Introduction – The end of the semester – Freudian slips The Surplus Population – Scrooge and Thomas Malthus – Enlightenment optimism – Population checks – Tiny Tim as a…

I see no need for show notes this week—let the bibliography speak for itself.   BIBLIOGRAPHY Augustine. Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics:…

General Introduction – The semester’s eschaton – Listener feedback What Is an Academic Conference? – Annual gathering of learned people – The make-up of the conference – Plenary lectures and…

General Introduction – “Technical difficulties” – What’s on the blog? – David, half-asleep – Women crawl out of the woodwork Biblical Creation – Stewardship – Christ as agent of creation…