In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer. — Paul Elie Copy Share Image
“BACH! A colossal syllable, one which makes composers tremble, brings performers to their knees, beatifies the Bach-lover, and apparently bores the daylights out of… — Paul Elie Copy Share
And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in… — Paul Elie Copy Share
“hand. Here was a Catholic counterpart to Brooks and Warren, shifting the emphasis away from the artist and toward the work of art. An” — Paul Elie Copy Share
In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction… — Paul Elie Copy Share
