Immersion in a different time

Immersion in a different time

FROM VOL. 17
Literary critic Alan Jacobs considers the author Patrick O’Brian as perhaps the best historical novelist ever. (13 minutes)
God is in the details

God is in the details

Flannery O’Connor on why stories rely on the particularities of reality
Bridges with structural flaws

Bridges with structural flaws

FROM VOL. 4
What made The Bridges of Madison County so popular, and so flawed? Alan Jacobs offers some insights. (14 minutes)
Place and imagination

Place and imagination

Matthew Stewart on Wallace Stegner’s moral laboratories
Faulkner's tragic vision

Faulkner’s tragic vision

Alan Jacobs describes how William Faulkner’s fiction explored the tragedy of living with a legacy of evil acts. (26 minutes)
On remembering and recognition

On remembering and recognition

In memory of Frederick Buechner’s life, Ken Myers shares from his 1996 conversation with the acclaimed writer. Also heard are two interviews with novelist Ron Hansen about the craft of writing fiction. (29 minutes)
On faithful fiction: Larry Woiwode, Alan Jacobs, & Jay Tolson

On faithful fiction: Larry Woiwode, Alan Jacobs, & Jay Tolson

This Friday Feature represents three interviews on fiction from Volume 3: Larry Woiwode on what makes good fiction, Alan Jacobs on P. D. James’s The Children of Men, and Jay Tolson on Walker Percy. (29 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 141

Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 141

FEATURED GUESTS: Grant Wythoff, Susanna Lee, Gerald R. Mcdermott, Carlos Eire, Kelly Kapic, and James Matthew Wilson
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 100

Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 100

FEATURED GUESTS: Jennifer Burns, Christian Smith, Dallas Willard, Peter Kreeft, P. D. James, James Davison Hunter, Paul McHugh, Ted Prescott, Ed Knippers, Martha Bayles, Dominic Aquila, Gilbert Meilaender, Neil Postman, and Alan Jacobs
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 93

Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 93

FEATURED GUESTS: Alan Jacobs, James A. Herrick, Robert C. Roberts, J. Daryl Charles, Allan C. Carlson, and Sheila O’Connor-Ambrose
Ralph C. Wood: “Rapidly Rises the Morning Tide: An Essay on P. D. James’s The Children of Men”

Ralph C. Wood: “Rapidly Rises the Morning Tide: An Essay on P. D. James’s The Children of Men”

Ralph C. Wood discusses the way in which the futuristic dystopia of P. D. James's novel, The Children of Men, reveals much about the West’s modern spiritual confusion and about the possible sources of hope beyond that chaos. (39 minutes)