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Marilynne Robinson: belief

20 Mar 2024 Conversations with Tyler Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America

“I was quite a distance from Idaho, in terms of my experience, by the time I was invited to come teach in the Writers’ Workshop at the university in Iowa, which is such a classic phenomenon in American literature that I was very happy to go there and be part of it.”

— Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson
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belief
Recorded
20 Mar 2024
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Conversations with Tyler

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…What led you to prefer Iowa? I went to college in Rhode Island and lived in Massachusetts and so on. I was quite a distance from Idaho, in terms of my experience, by the time I was invited to come teach in the Writers’ Workshop at the university in Iowa, which is such a classic phenomenon in American literature that I was very happy to go there and be part of it. How did the Iowa — what you might call writer’s scene — originally blossom?…

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