My Life in Seventeen Books
Autor Jon M. Sweeneyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mai 2024
- Author has 30 years of relationships in Jewish, Christian, body-mind-spirit, and multifaith spirituality publishing.
- Author has broad social media following: 10K followers @Twitter; 5K @Facebook; 950 @Instagram.
- His three volumes of Meister Eckhart poems coauthored with Mark S. Burrows (see comps) have garnered a growing following in both the U.S. and UK.
- After authoring nearly 50 books, this is his first book about books.
- Author lectures, readings, and literary-spiritual retreats will center on encouraging other readers to consider telling their own stories of life guided by the books one has carried.
- Author has been a lively guest on TV programs in the past. Here’s one from March 2023: https://www.tmj4.com/shows/the-morning-blend/lessons-in-the-spiritual-wisdom-of-cats.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781958972311
ISBN-10: 1958972312
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 140 x 218 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN-10: 1958972312
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 140 x 218 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Monkfish Book Publishing
Notă biografică
Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author who has been interviewed in the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, and on television at CBS Saturday Morning. His book, The Pope Who Quit, (Doubleday/Image) was optioned by HBO. He is also author of forty other books on spirituality, mysticism, and religion, including Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart, with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads), the biography Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Catechist, Saint (Liturgical Press), and Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices (St. Martin’s Essentials and Penguin Random House Audio, 2021).
His bookish reputation is nothing new. In 2014, Publishers Weekly featured Jon in an interview titled, “A Life in Books and On the Move.” He began the 1990s as a theological bookseller in Cambridge, and ended the decade founding a multifaith publishing house, SkyLight Paths Publishing, in Vermont. He’s worked in books and publishing ever since. Today he writes, reviews, edits, and recommends books, speaks regularly at literary and religious conferences, is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and is active on social media (Twitter @jonmsweeney; Facebook jonmsweeney). Sweeney lives in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee.
His bookish reputation is nothing new. In 2014, Publishers Weekly featured Jon in an interview titled, “A Life in Books and On the Move.” He began the 1990s as a theological bookseller in Cambridge, and ended the decade founding a multifaith publishing house, SkyLight Paths Publishing, in Vermont. He’s worked in books and publishing ever since. Today he writes, reviews, edits, and recommends books, speaks regularly at literary and religious conferences, is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and is active on social media (Twitter @jonmsweeney; Facebook jonmsweeney). Sweeney lives in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee.
Cuprins
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Martin Buber Book I Carried While My Marriage Failed
Chapter 2: Three Inches of Hitler in Very Small Hands
Chapter 3: A Means of Escape with My Side of the Mountain
Chapter 4: Forbidden Books for Ordinary Teenage Trauma
Chapter 5: In Search of Wendell Berry and an Expected Life
Chapter 6: Monica Furlong’s Thomas Merton and How to Ruin a Honeymoon
Chapter 7: Finding Tagore in Harvard Square
Chapter 8: Tolstoy’s Twenty-three Tales and Learning to Walk on Water
Chapter 9: Sitting with Swami and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Chapter 10: Hand-held Devotion (Books with Pictures)
Chapter 11: Sin and Mercy at Brighton Rock
Chapter 12: A Tiny Volume of What’s Impossible
Chapter 13: Carrying Baron Corvo and My Own Petty Animus
Chapter 14: With Patience Like Spring and Thoreau’s Journal
Chapter 15: Ghost Stories as Kids Go Off to College
Chapter 16: Black Elk Speaks and the Mystery of Religious Identity
Chapter 17: Montaigne’s Essays and the Dependability of Change
Afterword: All the Rest and What’s Next
Acknowledgements
Sources and Notes
About the Author
Index
Chapter 1: The Martin Buber Book I Carried While My Marriage Failed
Chapter 2: Three Inches of Hitler in Very Small Hands
Chapter 3: A Means of Escape with My Side of the Mountain
Chapter 4: Forbidden Books for Ordinary Teenage Trauma
Chapter 5: In Search of Wendell Berry and an Expected Life
Chapter 6: Monica Furlong’s Thomas Merton and How to Ruin a Honeymoon
Chapter 7: Finding Tagore in Harvard Square
Chapter 8: Tolstoy’s Twenty-three Tales and Learning to Walk on Water
Chapter 9: Sitting with Swami and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Chapter 10: Hand-held Devotion (Books with Pictures)
Chapter 11: Sin and Mercy at Brighton Rock
Chapter 12: A Tiny Volume of What’s Impossible
Chapter 13: Carrying Baron Corvo and My Own Petty Animus
Chapter 14: With Patience Like Spring and Thoreau’s Journal
Chapter 15: Ghost Stories as Kids Go Off to College
Chapter 16: Black Elk Speaks and the Mystery of Religious Identity
Chapter 17: Montaigne’s Essays and the Dependability of Change
Afterword: All the Rest and What’s Next
Acknowledgements
Sources and Notes
About the Author
Index