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When pop culture meets profound faith

Every year in November or December I spend a few hours rereading one of my favorite Christmas novels: “The Joyous Season,” by Patrick Dennis. It’s the tale of a pair of Manhattan siblings whose parents’ marriage implodes over one Christmas in the mid-1960s, and over the years it has had me laughing aloud on planes, […]

More reasons why I love libraries — in honor of National Library Week

Below is a link to a Q and A I did with Random House in honor of National Library Week. There are a half-dozen questions. Here is one. RH LIBRARY: If you were a character in a book who would you be? CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Well, I would want that person to be alive and happy […]

USA Today — and the best book I ever found under the tree at Christmas

The best book I ever got for Christmas is actually a Christmas book. Sort of. It’s Patrick Dennis’s “The Joyous Season,” his hilarious and underappreciated 1964 tale of one Manhattan family’s near implosion – and Mom and Dad’s near divorce – in the holiday season. It’s narrated by the family’s acerbic, insightful, and precocious ten-year-old […]

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