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Host Rick Kleffel speaks with Susan Stinson about her novel, Spider in a Tree, which explores the inner life of Calvinist preacher and slave holder Jonathan Edwards, most famous for his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
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With ‘Spider in a Tree,’ Susan Stinson takes us inside the mind of Jonathan Edwards, and those around him; his wife, Sarah, a slave, Leah and more. Stinson’s exemplary empathy towards her characters brings a delicate but powerful interior life to this intense novel. The subtle threads that connect them, the powerful beliefs that drove them, the internal conflicts that absolute power creates are orchestrated into a tidal surge of story. ‘Spider in a Tree’ spins a very clever web.
Plus Edward Gauvin on translating French surrealists and the Pataphysical School of literature, Jeff VanderMeer with a visual guide for how to write and Jonthan Lethem (lee-thumb) on his new Novel Dissident Gardens.
