The Inklings discussion

Next month will bring a new book about the Inklings: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, by Philip and Carol Zaleski.

You can get a preview of it in an essay posted this week on the Chronicle of Higher Education. Looks very promising!

yes it looks very promising and I believe it is published by a secular publisher
Stan

The book has been in stores for a little over a week now. I have it, but haven't had the chance to start it yet.

And for those who like audio books, it is available in audio at Audible.com
Stan

I read it. The authors were attuned most to Tolkien, least to Williams, and condescended to Lewis now and again. They say of his highly-regarded, if not widely read, late novel Till We Have Faces, "most readers...slog through" it, and that it's "a struggle to read and nearly impossible to cherish." Baloney. They say of Williams's impressive Descent into Hell that it usually is on the level of "highbrow pulp" -- whatever that means. The Zaleskis read widely in published sources, but appear to have consulted no unpublished ones except some Barfield papers in the Bodleian Library.

Dale Nelson