Vanity of Vanities (or, pre-pub media roundup)

If you’re curious, here’s an almost-complete list of The Unlikely Disciple’s media hits from the past week or so (with apologies in advance for all the self-promotion, which is reaching P.T. Barnum-esque heights).  I’ll have some actual content up soon, I promise.

• The cover story in the March/April issue of the Brown Alumni Magazine is a piece I wrote about my Liberty experience, called “Crossing the God Divide.”
• Today’s Lynchburg News & Advance includes a feature on my Liberty semester, written by Liz Barry, as well as a short Q&A.
• The American Scholar ran a long review in their most recent issue.  The review, written beautifully by novelist John Rolfe Gardiner, isn’t available online.  But here’s the money quote: Roose can’t forget he’s at Liberty first as a journalist. He’s a very good one, too, streets ahead of others his age at observation, with an ear for the argot, a nose for irony, a full kit of descriptive tools, and wise to his millennial generation’s enthusiasms, its sense of entitlement, and MySpace self-involvement. Determined not to prejudge, he’s open to being changed himself.
• The Sacramento Bee included The Unlikely Disciple in their spring books roundup, viewable here.
• The Brown Daily Herald, my favorite college newspaper, ran a feature about the book today.
• The March/April Psychology Today ran a great review, the closing line of which reads: “Roose’s open-mindedness about believers makes room for common ground, building a sorely needed footbridge across the God Divide.”
• Liberty’s radio station, 90.9 FM “The Light,” is running a radio interview with me at 6:30 PM EST tonight.  Listen in at http://www.thelightonline.com/.
• I’m still blogging at mental_floss about my Liberty semester.  Today’s installment: 5 Things I Learned By Being the World’s Worst Evangelist
• And, of course, the spring break chapter is still running as an excerpt at Salon.com. Some pretty funny reader comments on that one, including my personal favorite: “I would rather spend a semester with Nomads in Outer Mongolia moving their herd from place to place [than go undercover with evangelists].”

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at 4:00 pm .