You know, I'm glad to hear you like Alexie. When he came to Madison a few years ago, I went to hear him with great interest. I had read his work with all interest and care, as befits a graduate class where we were studying his stuff. But I cried in response to several of the things he was saying. He had the right to be full of protest, to be full of politics, to decry centuries of injustice and a present day nonexcluded. Still, though, by the time he was finished, I was practically sobbing, and felt like Christians had REALLY been bitch-slapped.
PS. It was that it was mocking. It was Madison and Sherman Alexie laughing and hating at the Christians with their Christian stupidity and continued Christian injustice, and there was no space at all to be, in my first year of grad school.
I haven't read that part of his stuff- I mean dealing with Christians. Which reveals to you that I haven't read much of his yet, really. The other night he mocked the culture, and I did wonder what his views would be there, but I always wonder about that.
I can definitely imagine the scene in Mad town, though. Although I've never been the amazing reader-thinker-investor you are, I had a similar disheartening thing happen at a reading of Annie Dillard's. It was years before I actually became a Christian and I still felt sort of betrayed by her bitchiness.
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