Aesop, The Man Who Never Listened and the Cliff Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Fenced Dog Barks Samuel Beckett, Waiting for the Mailman Truman Capote, Arrested at Tiffany’s Agatha Christie, The Case of My Missing Car Keys Fydor Dostoevsky, Crime and Probation Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Has a Headache Joseph Heller, Catch 23 Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Doorbell Rings James Joyce, The Top 10 Pubs of Dublin Franz Kafka, Traffic Court Jack Kerouac, Hitchhiker’s Guide … Read More »

Alice Walker grew up in the country in Georgia. She loved nature. Her mother worked as a maid, earning about ten dollars a week. But her mother saved enough money to buy a typewriter and a suitcase for her daughter so that she could leave home and get an education. (Meridian) Kingsley Amis began writing as self entertainment because he was an only child and lonely. (Lucky Jim) Maya Angelou wants to … Read More »

Gifts of an Uncommon Life: The Practice of Contemplative Activism by Howard E. Friend (Herndon, NJ: The Alban Institute, 2008) Who built the 50 foot concrete wall between spirituality and activism? Sure there are oodles of enlightened and semi-enlightened souls who have taken down the wall in their own lives; but it’s more common to meet: (a) Christians who think activists are always secular humanists and (b) activists who think Christians … Read More »