Reviews

The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages by A.J. Jacobs, André Aciman, Andrew Blauner, Daniel Menaker, Paul Elie, Al Sharpton, Jay Parini, Samuel G. Friedman, Lois Lowry, Owen King, Jane Leavy, Charles McGrath, Brooks Hansen, Avi Steinberg, Michael Eric Dyson, Colm Tóibín, Thomas Lynch, Robert Coover, Edwidge Danticat, Lauren Slater, Clyde Edgerton, Ian Frazier, Lydia Davis, Steven V. Roberts, Pico Iyer, Ian Caldwell, Tobias Wolff, Kerry Kennedy, Robert Pinsky, Rick Moody, Kathleen Norris, James Parker, Alec Wilkinson

dcmr's review against another edition

2.0

I like the idea, and a few of the essays spoke to me (Edwidge Danticat, most notably) but I'm rankled the book features so few women writers; in a collection of 33 essays, just 7 are written by women.