Marilynne Robinson: Home, Lila, and Jack
$295
This Delve takes up the three novels in the series that follow Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Gilead. The three novels all overlap in time and space with the mid-twentieth-century world of Gilead, while offering whole other stories and lives that offer perspectives on the great themes of race and racism, faith and family, punishment and reconciliation, love and loss and forgiveness. Set in the American past, Robinson’s novels nevertheless offer challenging insights and hope for today—hope for art, for the nation, for each other and individual selves. Each book will occupy the group over the course of two weeks, and in the final session, we will discuss the series as a whole. It will be useful to have read Gilead in advance of these sessions, but it’s not required.
Texts:
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
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Scott Korb
Winner of a 2021 Oregon Literary Fellowship, Scott Korb is director of the MFA in Writing at Pacific University and an advisory editor of Northwest Review. His books include The Faith Between Us, Life in Year One, and Light without Fire. Scott is also an editor of The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers and Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy. His essays and criticism have appeared widely, including in Harper’s, The New York Times, The LA Review of Books, Guernica, and elsewhere.
