Being Real in Fiction (on Carrying the Torch by Brock Clarke; Somewhere Geese Are Flying: New and Selected Stories by Gary Gildner; Something for the Journey by Richard Cortez Day; and Your Lolita by D. B. Wells)
The Religion of Now (on Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America by Kathleen Rooney; Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman; Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture by David Chidester; The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman; and The Aesthetics of Everyday Life, edited by Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Swift)
Where Do We Discover What We Believe? (on Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil by C. D. Wright; The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience by Ann Lauterbach; Poetry and What Is Real by Richard Tillinghast; Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry by Peter Middleton; and The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy by Robert Baker)
