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Kurt Andersen and novelist Mark Salzman look at the close intersections of artistic creation and religious devotion. Salzman is the author of Iron and Silk, The Soloist, and Lost in Place. His latest book, Lying Awake, about the spiritual journey of a Carmelite nun, has just been published in paperback by Vintage.
Kurt Andersen and novelist Mark Salzman look at the close intersections of artistic creation and religious devotion.Salzman is the author ofIron and Silk,The Soloist, andLost in Place. His latest book,Lying Awake, about the spiritual journey of a Carmelite nun, has just been published in paperback by Vintage. (Originally aired: November 10, 2001)
Reggae music often draws on Old Testament mythology about the exodus and the promised land, but in America its fans are usually pretty secular. A singer named Matisyahu is changing that. He’s a Hasidic Jew, and his shows are packed with young Orthodox men as well as dreadlocked hippies. Matisyahu explains how he got on […]