Interior States

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Meghan O'Gieblyn

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Alfred A. Knopf
09 October 2018

Religion & beliefs

Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction

""Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection.""

--Lorrie Moore

A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity- faith, in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere.

Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction

""Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection.""

--Lorrie Moore

A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity- faith, in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere.

What does it mean to be a believing Christian and a Midwesterner in an increasingly secular America where the cultural capital is retreating to both coasts? The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka ""Flyover Country."" She writes of her ""existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still,"" and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the fifteen superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection. The subjects of these essays range from the rebranding (as it were) of Hell in contemporary Christian culture (""Hell""), a theme park devoted to the concept of intelligent design (""Species of Origin""), the paradoxes of Christian Rock (""Sniffing Glue""), Henry Ford's reconstructed pioneer town of Greenfield Village and its mixed messages (""Midwest World""), and the strange convergences of Christian eschatology and the digital so-called Singularity (""Ghosts in the Cloud""). Meghan O'Gieblyn stands in relation to her native Midwest as Joan Didion stands in relation to California - which is to say a whole-hearted lover, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time.

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 264g
ISBN: 9780525562702
ISBN 10: 0525562702
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 09 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MEGHAN O'GIEBLYN is the author of the essay collectionInterior States, which was published to wide acclaim and won the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction. Her writing has received three Pushcart Prizes and appeared inTheBest American Essaysanthology. She writes essays and features forHarper's Magazine,The New Yorker, The Guardian, Wired,The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.

Reviews for Interior States: Essays

One of the most consistently absorbing collection of essays I've read in a long time. Meghan O'Gieblyn is at times rueful, at times hard-hitting, but hers is a distinctly independent-minded and nuanced voice. --Daphne Merkin A unique compendium of contemplative musings... thought proviking... A solid choice for intellectually curious readers. --Library Journal [A] delightful debut... well-crafted and enjoyable... [O'Gieblyn's] individual essays flow due to the moving prose, her sense of irony, and her deep insight into and affection for her topics. --Publishers Weekly O'Gieblyn's contemporary, hip voice is one people need to hear. --Kirkus Reviews Genuinely empathetic... [O'Gieblyn] conjures midwestern angst... with humor and dread... She examines big-time evangelicalism's growing avoidance of evil and sin ( Hell ) and the rise and fall of Christian rock ( Sniffin' Glue ) without a particle of condescension, showing why interest in those phenomena should be serious and humane... Other themes she considers with grace, wit, and compassion. --Booklist

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