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A Preview of the 25th Wisconsin Book Festival with Jane Rotonda and Meghan O'Gieblyn

A Preview of the 25th Wisconsin Book Festival with Jane Rotonda and Meghan O'Gieblyn

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On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie speaks with festival director Jane Rotonda and author Meghan O'Gieblyn about her book Will and Attention, ahead of O'Gieblyn's appearance at the Wisconsin Book Festival on Friday, October 16th. After leaving evangelical Christianity in her early twenties, kicking an addiction, and building a life as a writer, Meghan O'Gieblyn was admired by her friends for having a strong will. Then, in her late thirties, she began secretly attending Catholic mass and meeting with a priest to discuss conversion. After eleven years of sobriety, she began drinking again. Both returns—to organized religion and to alcohol—felt to her like a regression, a personal defeat. Knowledge and determination had proven useless when it came to her most vexing personal battles. In Will and Attention, O'Gieblyn captures those perplexing days. Soon after her return to sobriety, she looked to a series of spiritual texts for answers and began putting them in conversation with her life. She was struck by the words of philosopher and mystic Simone Weil: “We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.” Will had certainly failed her; perhaps the answer lay in attention to her wandering mind and heart? Inspired by this possibility, she set out to find a spirituality that could meet her longings and prove capacious enough to hold the dark side of human nature. Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author of Will and Attention, and the books God Human Animal Machine and Interior States. She writes essays, features, and criticism for Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, n+1, The Point, The Baffler, Wired, The Yale Review, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The New York Times, Bookforum and other publications. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and the 2023 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her essays have been included in The Best American Essays and The Contemporary American Essay anthologies. You can see a full list of this year's Wisconsin Book Festival events here.
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