Friendship in Twilight - Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world. A Friendship in Twilight is their plague journal. In raw and searching letters, written daily from the first lockdowns through the Capitol riot, they reflect on life during overlapping crises.

List of contents

A Note to Our Readers
Introduction
The Ides of March
Easter
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Epiphany
Works Cited

About the author

Jack Miles is professor emeritus of English and religious studies at the University of California, Irvine. A former Jesuit, he is the author of a trilogy about God in three classic scriptures, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning God: A Biography (1995), and the general editor of the six-volume Norton Anthology of World Religions.

Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion at Columbia University and professor emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of more than thirty books, including most recently Intervolution: Smart Bodies Smart Things (Columbia, 2020). His art has been exhibited at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Clark Art Institute.

Summary

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world. A Friendship in Twilight is their plague journal. In raw and searching letters, written daily from the first lockdowns through the Capitol riot, they reflect on life during overlapping crises.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Miles, Jack Taylor Miles, Miles Jack, Mark C. Taylor, Taylor Mark C.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780231205948
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20594-8
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Diaries, letters & journals, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Diaries, letters and journals