By Jonathon Van Maren We came upon Heididorf by accident, while searching for a hotel between my meeting in Salzburg and my meeting in Zug. My wife spotted the sign for Maienfeld first. Why was that name so familiar? Perhaps it was the landscape, with the Alpine peaks rushing skyward all around us, but it…
Harper Lee, the famously private author of one of the 20th Century’s greatest books “To Kill A Mockingbird,” let only a few people into her secret world. Dr. Wayne Flynt was one of those friends, and he recently published a book titled “Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee.” He joined Jonathon Van Maren to…
James Herriot, or to use his real name, Alf Wight, is one of the best-loved British authors of all time. Writing autobiographical stories of his days as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales, Herriot captured the hearts of people everywhere. His son Jim Wight worked with him for years, and wrote a memoir of his…
How should Christians interact with literature and art? What should they be reading? Jonathon Van Maren sits down with Dr. Scott Masson and Dr. Bill Friesen to discuss these thing.
A hilarious writer who started off at age 12 with This Can’t Be Happening At McDonald Hall, Gordon Korman has since branched out to other genres, including his excellent and popular series’ Everest, Dive, and Island. Korman has written over 85 books and sold over 17 million copies. He joined Jonathon to discuss the life…
Acclaimed author Kit Pearson joins Jonathon Van Maren on The Bridgehead for the second installment in our Children’s Literature series. Author of novels like A Handful of Time, Awake and Dreaming, and The Sky is Falling, Pearson produces literature of a rare quality. In this interview, she explains how.
For the first in our Christmas season literature series, Jonathon Van Maren chats with award-winning Canadian author Jean Little on children’s literature, writing, and how her life translates into her writing.
By Jonathon Van Maren As far back as I can remember, I wanted my own library. Not just a little bookshelf in the corner with my own small collection of volumes, but a big library, a grand library, a place where books and ideas and people and artifacts of all types cluttered about while I…