Recommended Reading

Image of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
Author: Paul Elie
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 554 pages
Image of The Seven Storey Mountain
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Mariner Books (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 496 pages
Image of No Man Is an Island
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Mariner Books (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages
Image of The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
Author: Dorothy Day
Publisher: HarperOne (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of The Complete Stories
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1971)
Binding: Paperback, 576 pages
Image of Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Picador (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 448 pages
Image of The Moviegoer
Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Vintage (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 241 pages

Music Played

Image of Awakening
Artist: Joseph Curiale, Joseph Curiale, The Royal Philhramonic Orchestra/Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Dod Severinsen (trpt.), Ralph Morrison (violin), Mike Miller (guitar)
Label: Orchard Road
Image of The Cello Suites YO_YO MA Inspired By Bach From The Six-Part Film Series
Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma
Label: Sony
Image of The Mystery Of Santo Domingo De Silos Gregorian Chant From Spain
Artist: Dom Ismaael Fernandez De La Cuesta, Chorus of Monks from the Abbey
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Image of Words of the Angel
Artist: Trio Mediaeval
Label: Ecm Records
Image of Haydn: The Seven Last Words
Artist: Franz Joseph Haydn, Emerson String Quartet
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Image of Appalachia Waltz
Artist: Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
Label: Sony
Image of Mark Twain's America: A Portrait in Music
Artist: Jacqueline Schwab, Traditional, John Andrew Stevenson, Spiritual Traditional, Stephen [1] Foster, Walter Kittredge, American Traditional, Ernest Bucalossi, Robert Burns, Victor Herbert, James [Conductor] Scott, Lotus Dickey, Jacqueline Schwab
Label: Dorian Recordings

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    Paul Elie

    Elie is senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage.