For the Time Being: An Assemblage

The previous twenty-nine posts in this series have covered Marilynne Robinson’s and Annie Dillard’s youth (I, II), some of their first influences (I, II, III, IV), their earliest available work (I, II, III, IV, V, VI), their grad-school theses and dissertations, their first published books forgeneral audiences, and a random uncollected but representative Dillard essay. We’re up to the late 1990s, when Dillard has a novel behind her and Robinson has fallen a little too under the spell of America. It doesn’t seem like it, but we’re very close to the end. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!