Marilynne Robinson's Americanism

(it have I loved; it have I hated)

The previous twenty-eight 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 1980s, when Dillard is working on her first novel. It doesn’t seem like it, but we’re getting close to the end. Happy Thanksgiving!