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Books with Ashley Hales: Tolstoy, Carr, Vonnegut, Worthen, and More


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It’s time for another books episode.


Russell Moore is joined again by Ashley Hales, the former producer of the show and now CT’s editorial director for print, in a discussion about what they’re reading now and about how reading as a practice is necessary and helpful in a windblown world. 


What books are you loving? And which books would you be sure to pack if you were planning to be marooned on a desert island? Email us: [email protected]


Books/essays mentioned in this episode:

  • Learning in War-Time by C. S. Lewis
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Superbloom by Nicholas Carr
  • Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror by Andrey Mir
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Silas Marner by George Eliot 
  • Spellbound by Molly Worthen
  • The Theological Imagination by Judith Wolfe


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