Praise for Bret Lott and Letters & Life like no one else’s in this country.”
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES “ Letters & Life is nothing less than an invaluable gift—a wise, wonderful, and desperately needed primer on what it means to be a genuine Christian writer and artist.”
ERIC METAXAS New York Times best-selling author, Bonhoeffer “ In this lively collection of essays, Lott is determined to bridge another
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Massachusetts) is the New York Times best-selling author of more than a dozen books, including Jewel, an Oprah Book Club selection. From 1986
gap—the sometimes uneasy tension between the world of literary fiction and the broader community of faith.”
GREGORY WOLFE editor, Image; author, Beauty Will Save the World
on being a writer, on being a Christian
today. His eye for detail is unparalleled; his vision—where he looks—is
letters & life
“Lott is one of the most important and imaginative writers in America
“ H o w, I w an t t o k no w, i s i t s o v er y di f f icul t t o g i v e, in m y w or k a s a w r i t er, God hi s due? ” All serious writers know that each word they write reveals something significant
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about their beliefs, something about their reason for creating, something about the one for whom they write. After all, writing lays bare the soul. Yet the work of a Christian artist is often pressured to fit into a popular mold, oftentimes forgoing quality for the sake of convenience or acceptance, or even simply because of a lack of the bravery necessary to look the world square in the eye, and to do so with the unflinching eye of Christ.
“Lott is one of America’s finest writers and editors; this book reveals
to 2004 he was writer-in-residence
him to be one of our greatest mentors to writers of faith as well.
In this series of intimate reflections on
and professor of English at the
Letters & Life brims with wisdom and advice to all who bear the call
life and writing, critically acclaimed and
College of Charleston, leaving to take
toward an authentic journey of a writer. It is a gift for all readers who
best-selling novelist Bret Lott calls authors
the position of editor and director of
desire to know more about the creative process and to infuse their
to pursue excellence in their craft through
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creativity into their lives.”
five fascinating essays and an extended
Louisiana State University. In 2007, he
MAKOTO FUJIMURA
returned to the College of Charleston,
artist; founder, International Arts Movement
has been a member of the National Council on the Arts.
“Bret Lott has dared to write an impossible book—a serious and candid set of meditations on what it means to be a Christian writer living in a secular society that neither respects nor even understands his faith.”
DANA GIOIA poet; former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts “Bret Lott has a gift for making the ordinary seem luminous.”
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where he currently teaches. He serves
letters & life on being a writer,
on being a Christian
memoir that explore everything from the importance of literary fiction to the pain of personal loss. Learn here what it means to be a writer who navigates the tension inherent to being a Christian in the public square—and to being an artist made in the image of God.