But for Robinson, a featured guest at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and the winner of prizes that include the National Book Award and two Pulitzers, it was hardly inevitable. “I didn’t even intend to write a second Gilead book,” Robinson said during a Zoom conversation preceding her Festival talk with journalist and novelist Hector Tóbar. (This is her fourth in the series, after “Gilead,” “Home” and “Lila.”) “I was very interested in Jack. “Aside from characters living in my head, so do certain figures whose thinking has been important to me,” Robinson said. So you might as well ask Robinson, over Zoom, about how faith operates in modern society.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 13, 2020 18:00 UTC