Thursday, October 29, 2009

Mary Doria Russell: The Novelist as God

(The Sparrow is one of my favorite SF books)

The Novelist as God
Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett



Mary Doria Russell has grappled with large moral and religious questions on and off the page. We discover what she discerned — in the act of creating a new universe — about God and about dilemmas of evil, doubt, and free will. The ultimate moral of any life and any event, she believes, only shows itself across generations. And so the novelist, like God, she says, paints with the brush of time.

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