"Baseball, Enchantment, and Children’s Literature" - A Conversation with David Bentley Hart
"Baseball, Enchantment, and Children’s Literature" - A Conversation with David Bentley Hart
We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring author and scholar David Bentley Hart.
The webinar features an interview with Hart, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience.
About David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart is a philosopher, religious studies scholar, translator, and devoted Baltimore Orioles fan. He has written many books and articles, most recently two 2022 books Tradition and Apocalypse and You Are Gods. He has also translated the New Testament, the second edition of which was published in 2023. In addition to his scholarly works such as Atheist Delusions (for which he was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize), The Experience of God, and That All Shall Be Saved, Hart has lately devoted time to fiction and creative nonfiction, writing the novel Kenogaia; the children’s fairy-tale The Mystery of Castle MacGorilla, which he co-authored with his son; and Roland in Moonlight, a memoir and dialogue with his dog Roland that was one of 2021’s Books of the Year for the Times Literary Supplement. He writes regularly on his substack Leaves in the Wind.
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This is a great! Thanks for posting this interview! I came here for the conversation around children's literature, but I really appreciated the insight regarding baseball. Thanks to all involved!
Happy to see DBL in a conversation that he seemed to enjoy. This was a wonderful interview.
I wish Mr.Hart would have discussed some current children's lit authors, such as Katherine Rundell. Otherwise, he and his brother, Addison Hodges Hart, are always compelling speakers and authors. Thanks for posting this interview!
Wow, I felt a stab of pain when Mr. Hart said only the first book in the Wrinkle in Time series was any good. A Wrinkle in Time is great, but my favorite in the series was always "Many Waters", followed by "A Wind in the Door". Although, I've always been more literary-minded than mathematically, so I've always identified more with Vicky Austin from the Austin Family Chronicles than I did with Meg Murry.
33:40 "...[the ideal in writing a children's book] is not to presume that children are stupid... ...the mind expands the brain, it doesn't work the other way around-neural plasticity. we are spirit before we are flesh."
I love DBH and respect his opinions but I was very disapointed to hear his stance on comics. So many masterpieces and great literature in that genre: Vinland Saga, Berserk, Watchmen, Sandman, V for Vendetta.
@jonostake
15 күн бұрын
And invincible!
Jump to 28:35 to skip the baseball talk...
@stefansketracy
6 ай бұрын
Why would anyone ever skip baseball talk?