Co-Curricular: Student Coffee & Discussion with Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is charming: colloquial and profound, witty and serious. I heard her speak at the student brunch the morning after her April 11th Conversations in the Arts & Ideas conversation with Dean Robert Hill. I had just finished reading Gilead with the History Department’s book club, led by Professor Jim Johnson. Seeing her speak, […]
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson
Perhaps it was chance that Marilynne Robinson’s appearance in the BU Conversations in the Arts & Ideas series fell a mere two days after Easter. With its spirit of renewal, tinged with the lingering somberness of Lent, this moment in the Christian liturgical year was the perfect background to the thoughtful, gentle way in which […]