Bleak Reading, Magic, and Belief: Ben Dueholm

Pastor and author Ben Dueholm drops by to talk about the value of bleak reading, the intrigue of magic, and even Lou Reed! Episode artwork: Magician Paul LePaul, 1937. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to learn more about the books, authors—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   Adonis                                     Concerto al-Quds Dietrich Bonhoeffer                Letters and Papers from Prison Louis Paul Boon                      My Little War Joe Brainard                            The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard John  Bunyan                          The Pilgrim's Progress Tara Isabella Burton                Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from da Vinci to the Kardashians Louis-Ferdinand Céline David Chase                            The Sopranos Hélène Cixous                         Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang Robertson Davies                   The Cornish Trilogy Robertson Davies                   The Deptford Trilogy Fredrik deBoer                        How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement Joan Didion                             "Self-Respect: Its Source, Its Power" Louise Fitzhugh                       Harriet the Spy David Foster Wallace              Infinite Jest Michel Foucault                       The Archaeology of Knowledge Thomas Hardy                         Tess of the D'urbervilles Will Hermes                             Lou Reed: The King of New York Andrew Hineraker                   The Magic Play Norton Juster                          The Phantom Tollbooth John LeCarré                           A Perfect Spy John LeCarré                           A Private Spy John LeCarré                           Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Cormac McCarthy                   All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy                   Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy                   The Border Trilogy Cormac McCarthy                   Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy                   The Crossing Cormac McCarthy                   No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy                   The Passenger Cormac McCarthy                   The Road Cormac McCarthy                   Stella Maris Herman Melville                      Moby Dick Toni Morrison                          Sula Toni Morrison                          Song of Solomon Vladimir Nabokov                    Pale Fire George Orwell "                      "Politics and the English Language" Marilynne Robinson                Gilead Marilynne Robinson                Reading Genesis Salman Rushdie                      Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie                      Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie                      The Satanic Verses David Simon                            The Wire Jonathan D. Spence               The Death of Woman Wang Sam Tanenhouse                    Whitaker Chambers: A Biography Christian Wiman                     He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art Christian Wiman                     My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer Christian Wiman                     "The Preacher Addresses the Seminarians"