Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. What’s your favorite literary genre? Any guilty pleasures? There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time. I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. Joseph and his brothers, David and Absalom - narratives that are as fine as any to be found anywhere.Īre you a rereader? What books do you find yourself returning to again and again? But the Old Testament is full of splendid things, too. For the moment, that is the Gospel of John and the Gospels generally. My favorite book or story tends to be the one I’ve read or thought about most recently.
The Bible is a very great literature, profoundly self-referential. What is your favorite book (or story) in the Bible, and why?
I read whenever I can, when I am not preparing to teach, or writing. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention. I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. The author of “Gilead” and “When I Was a Child I Read Books” says that after “Housekeeping,” her greatest fear was writing “a fraudulent book simply to escape the embarrassments of having written only one novel.”
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