Calvin, Again
Marilynne Robinson’s “extemporizing on, say, Karl Marx’s Capital is often punctuated with laughter and blithe phrases such as ‘Oh, goody!’ When a question gave her pause during our interview, she’d often shrug and say, ‘Calvin again,’ and then look away as if the sixteenth-century Frenchman were standing in the room waiting to give her advice.” Sarah […]
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Marilynne Robinson’s “extemporizing on, say, Karl Marx’s Capital is often punctuated with laughter and blithe phrases such as ‘Oh, goody!’ When a question gave her pause during our interview, she’d often shrug and say, ‘Calvin again,’ and then look away as if the sixteenth-century Frenchman were standing in the room waiting to give her advice.” Sarah Fay interviews our greatest Calvinist novelist.