Liz Hoare investigates the lives and writings of twelve great spiritual writers of our times, looking especially at how their books can serve as resources for spiritual growth and discipleship.
From Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to Anais Nin and Henry James, McDowell examines the ruinous love affairs of the 20th century's greatest female writers, and these relationships' effects on their craft.
Jones explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century American writers - including Poe, Melville and Twain - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Here, they emerge as theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self.
