Going Deep with Good Books
Creative, challenging books are the love of
our academic lives at the OE. We read
books in a way that allows us to experience
them deeply, to hold their questions tenderly
in our hands, to enter their imaginative
worlds respectfully, to accompany their
authors on journeys that engage our hearts
and spirits as well as our heads. We read
books meditatively and interactively, allowing
them to shed new light on, ask new
questions of, our lives, our relationships, our
hopes and dreams, our doubt and faith. We
love when good books seduce or disturb us.
We expect books to draw us into honest
listening and speaking with our fellow
learners.
Creative, challenging books are the love of
our academic lives at the OE. We read
books in a way that allows us to experience
them deeply, to hold their questions tenderly
in our hands, to enter their imaginative
worlds respectfully, to accompany their
authors on journeys that engage our hearts
and spirits as well as our heads. We read
books meditatively and interactively, allowing
them to shed new light on, ask new
questions of, our lives, our relationships, our
hopes and dreams, our doubt and faith. We
love when good books seduce or disturb us.
We expect books to draw us into honest
listening and speaking with our fellow
learners.
We all read about fifteen books during the core sections of the semester. Here is a
sampling from the past few years:
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer…
Shusaku Endo, Deep River
David James Duncan, The River Why and The Brothers K
Jennifer Gonnerman, Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
James Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic
Simone Weil, The Simone Weil Reader
David Simon & Edward Burns, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
J. D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
John Caputo, On Religion
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
James Alison, Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
David Griffith, A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America
William Stringfellow, Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
sampling from the past few years:
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer…
Shusaku Endo, Deep River
David James Duncan, The River Why and The Brothers K
Jennifer Gonnerman, Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
James Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic
Simone Weil, The Simone Weil Reader
David Simon & Edward Burns, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
J. D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
John Caputo, On Religion
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
James Alison, Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
David Griffith, A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America
William Stringfellow, Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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