Podcast Episodes featuring Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 21, 2019 19:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsNovelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern “piety” toward science. They connect thrilling dots among the current discoveries about the cosmos and the new territory of underst...
[Unedited] Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - November 21, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsNovelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern “piety” toward science. They connect thrilling dots among the current discoveries about the cosmos and the new territory of underst...
Marilynne Robinson: Liberalism and American Tradition Pt. II
Library Talks - March 03, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThis week we're featuring part two of Marilynne Robinson's lecture on American society, government and economy titled "Liberalism and American Tradition." Robinson discusses our country's Puritan history and how society constructs value, referencing a number of political philosophers and social...
Marilynne Robinson: Liberalism and American Tradition Pt. I
Library Talks - February 24, 2019 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 307 ratingsMarilynne Robinson is one of the most celebrated American writers—she won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, to name just a few of her accolades. She recently delivered a lecture on American Civilization and Government titled "Li...
Marilynne Robinson
Arts & Ideas - April 12, 2018 21:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 268 ratingsWhen President Obama met the American essayist and fiction writer Marilynne Robinson they discussed shared values, citiizenship and Christianity. She talks to Rana Mitter about her definition of Puritanism, the radical history of the mid west states, the use of religion in current American politi...
Close Reads #67: Christine Perrin on Learning to Love Marilynne Robinson
CiRCE Institute Podcast Network - September 18, 2017 20:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 319 ratingsOn this bonus episode of Close Reads, David discusses Marilynne Robinson with poet, teacher, and speaker Christine Perrin, who explains why it took her a while to learn to love Gilead, why Lila is her "heart book," and much, much more. *** This episode is brought to you by our good friends ...
A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) - November 04, 2015 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 263 ratingsMarilynne Robinson
World Book Club - December 07, 2014 20:06 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratingsGilead is an epistolary novel that is the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town of Gilead, Iowa, who knows that he is dying of a heart condition. An intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the 20th Cen...
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