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The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
by Paul Elie

"The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God.

In the mid-twentieth century, four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story - a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.

Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them - the School of the Holy Ghost - and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a "predicament shared in common."

A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change - to save - our lives."
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This title is the choice for Salzmann Library's June Book Discussion Group.

If you are interested in learning more about this book, reading works by the aforementioned authors, or reading more about them, we currently have a display featuring our book club pick.

Read On Pilgrimage by Dorothy Day, Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Flannery O'Connor's Everything that Rises Must Converge, or Thomas Merton's famous book The Seven Story Mountain. If you prefer biographies, we have Flannery by Brad Gooch and many others. Then come to the library to discuss and learn more about these four authors and their works.

We look forward to seeing you! (SalzmannStaff)… (més)

Mario Marazziti (13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty)
Paul Elie (13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty)

A longtime spokesman for the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Rome-based progressive Catholic NGO, MARIO MARAZZITI co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002. For many years he was a producer with RAI, the Italian television network. In 2012, Marazziti was elected to the lower house of Italian parliament, where he pursues a broad human-rights based portfolio. He is the author of a number of books in Italian and has written a regular column for Corriere della Serra. Marazziti lives in Rome.

PAUL ELIE is an American writer and editor, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2004. His most recent book is Reinventing Bach. He lives in New York. (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Your Classical Companion, KBAQ 89.5, and Changing Hands Bookstore are proud to present Book Notes—a book club for music lovers 7PM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 Paul Elie: Reinventing Bach Award-winning author Paul Elie presents Reinventing Bach, KBAQ 89.5FM's "Book Notes" book club pick for October.

Elie tells how musicians have restored Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionized the ways that music figures in our lives. Two centuries after the eighteenth-century composer's death, musicians have taken advantage of breakthroughs in audio and digital recording to broadcast Bach's music beyond the church and concert hall, make it the sound of Hollywood in Fantasia, and return his concertos and cello suites to modern audiences.

Read an interview with Paul Elie on his book in The New York Times »

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Paul Elie, for many years a senior editor with FSG, is now a senior fellow with Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. His first book, The life you save may be your own, received the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist in 2003. He lives in New York City. WHAT: Featuring novels, biographies, memoirs and monographs about classical music, composers, musicians and history, Book Notes is your literary gateway to learning more about the music you love.

WHEN: Tune in to KBAQ 89.5FM the first Friday of every month to hear Randy Kinkel's Book Notes review the month's pick

On the First Friday of each month at 6pm, Randy Kinkel will review a new book. A repeat airing of his review can be heard the following Sunday during The Pulse at the Heart of the Arts, at 1pm.

WHERE: You can buy the Book Notes monthly selection by clicking "Add to cart" below. You can also order at 480.730.0205, or at Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S. McClintock Dr., Tempe, AZ 85283. Attachment Size BOOKNOTES-oct2012.mp3 5.55 MB

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Elie, author of The life you save may be your own, calls the 20th century the “recorded era,” and his focus on the great Bach interpreters of recent decades—Albert Schweitzer, Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski, and, of course, Glenn Gould and Yo-Yo Ma—concentrates as much on the development of recording technology as it does on the individual artists.

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Reinventing Bach Paul Elie Paul Elie’s debut book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own told the stories of four great American Catholic writers—Flannery O’Conner, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—who crafted literature out of their search for God. Called “a work of the spirit” by Harold Bloom, the book received the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Elie is a senior fellow with Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Commonweal, and other publications. In Reinventing Bach, Elie illustrates how enlightened contemporary musicians use technology to restore and revolutionize the works of Bach for our time. Featuring Yu-Wen Wang on cello. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Wednesday, September 19, 7:30 PM Paul Elie discusses his book Reinventing Bach with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay

Paul Elie’s award-winning debut, The life you save may be your own, was widely hailed for its intelligence, craftsmanship, and elegance in conveying the lives four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God. That same level of passionate intensity is evident in the pages of Reinventing Bach, a gorgeous exploration of the music of one of the greatest composers of all time. At once a biography of Bach woven through the stories of the musicians who have reinvented his work – including Glenn Gould, Yo-Yo Ma and many others – Elie’s book is also an examination of the technology that has made such reinvention possible. Appropriately enough, Elie discusses the book with veteran interviewer (and sound technology enthusiast) Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, with whom Elie is working on a Storycorps project about religion in America.

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Marilyn Robinson; Paul Elie

The author of the novels Home and Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), takes part in a literary conversation, "The Resurrection of the Ordinary," with Paul Elie, author of the collective biography The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. Georgetown University, Riggs Library, Healy Hall, 37th and O streets NW. PresidentsOffice@georgetown.edu or http://www.president.georgetown.edu/sections/news/events. Free, reservations required. (SqueakyChu)… (més)