Episode 19: 2020 Year-End Wrap-Up (with Sarah Arthur)

The Englewood Review of Books Podcast

Jen is joined by three great guests for a live conversation (as well as an abundance of recorded contributions from other guests) for a wide-ranging and freewheeling conversation about our favorite books of 2020.
C. Christopher Smith is the Founding Editor of The Englewood Review of Books and the author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks, published by Brazos in 2019.

John Wilson is the former editor of Books & Culture. He is now Contributing Editor for The Englewood Review of Books.

Sarah Arthur is the author of a dozen books on the intersection of faith and great literature, including the award-winning A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle. She served as co-director of the first-ever Madeleine L’Engle Conference “Walking on Water” at the end of 2019 and will co-lead the L’Engle Writing Retreat in northwest CT, tentatively rescheduled for November 2021. You can learn more about her work at her website saraharthur.info. Sarah is currently writing fiction and a preliminary fiction judge of the CT Book awards
Books mentioned in this episode:

• A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle by Sarah Arthur
• A Long Time Comin' by Robin Pearson
• Keys to Bonhoeffer's Haus: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Laura Fabrycky
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
• The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• Sex and the City of God: A Memoir of Love and Longing by Carolyn Weber
• Rhythms for Life: Spiritual Practices for Who God Made You to Be by Alastair Sterne
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• What It's Like to be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Sisters by Daisy Johnson
• Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Lewis by Gina Dalfonzo
• The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman
• The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson
• Midwest Futures by Phil Christman
• Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane Ortlund
• A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love by Katherine James
• Can You See Anything Now? by Katherine James
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
• Everything Sad Is Untrue: A True Story by Daniel Nayeri
• Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes
• Class Act by Jerry Craft
• When God Made the World by Matthew Paul Turner
• Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
• A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan
• The Uncontrollability of the World by Harmut Rosa
• Charis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England by Marly Youmans
• Living Things: Collected Poems by Anne Porter
• One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle
• The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
• Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
• Art & Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto Fujimura
• How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby
• A Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep by Tish Harrison Warren
• Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick
• A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene Peterson by Winn Collier