Remembering David Foster Wallace, Big Book Giveaway, Flannery O'Connor, MORE - Sept. 12 - ERB Daily Book Morsel

Published: Wed, 09/12/18















 

September 12, 2018



“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness,
and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people
and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” 

― David Foster Wallace, novelist / essayist, 
who died an untimely death 10 years ago today.



Read a superb excerpt from
The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace



David Foster Wallace –
3 Important Interviews





*** Kindle Ebook Deal of the Day:
Flannery O'Connor - 
A Good Man is Hard to Find (and Other Stories) 

Only $3.49



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*** Book Giveaway: Three Excellent Books on Reading!

A Very Special Book Giveaway this week! 
Five Winners will receive a package of three superb recent books on reading:
- Karen Swallow Prior – On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books  (Brazos Press)
- Anne Bogel – I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life   (Baker Books)
- (ERB Editor) C. Christopher Smith – Reading for the Common Good:
       How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish  (IVP Books)
Enter now to win this prize package (It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!) :


 


New Book Releases –Week of 10 Sept. 2018
-Christian Wiman, MORE


Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Christian Wiman on the art of faith, The Battle for Bonhoeffer, Sharon Creech, MORE



 

In Case You Missed It...

New ERB Magazine Issue! (Fall 2018)

Featuring interviews with Jonathan Merritt, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso,
and Grace Ji-Sun Kim, the debut of John Wilson’s column “Time Out of Joint,”
reviews of new books by Alan Jacobs (reviewed by Philip Jenkins), Rachel Held Evans,
Jean Vanier, Parker Palmer, Kathy Khang, and MORE.
We are pleased to offer a FREE sampler of this issue:



 

Here's to energizing reading today!

Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books