{"id":780,"date":"2008-09-01T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/next-up.html"},"modified":"2008-09-01T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T21:09:59","slug":"next-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/next-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Next up"},"content":{"rendered":"

…a novel highly recommended to me by a reader. I’ll be heading to the library\/bookstore (whichever is closer) tomorrow on my rounds to pick it up:
\n\"\"The End by Salvatore Scibona<\/a>
\nThe reader says:
\n\u00a0I have just read a phenomenal book entitled The End<\/span> by Salvatore Scibona.\u00a0 The first 50 or so pages I thought , “Meh, it’s not awful, but I don’t quite get Annie Dillard’s glowing praise.”\u00a0 However, now having finished I am just blown away and need to really spend sometime thinking about and assessing the ideas brought forth. And they’re big ideas, fundamental discourse about how we live, how we are created, how losing our faith can destroy .\u00a0 It harkened to me of Faulkner and Dostoyevsky, but set in blue collar America.<\/em>\u00a0
\nAnyone read it yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…a novel highly recommended to me by a reader. I’ll be heading to the library\/bookstore (whichever is closer) tomorrow on my rounds to pick it up: The End by Salvatore Scibona The reader says: \u00a0I have just read a phenomenal book entitled The End by Salvatore Scibona.\u00a0 The first 50 or so pages I thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nNext up - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/next-up.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Next up - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"…a novel highly recommended to me by a reader. 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