I got to contribute to another blog! Check it out in larger print here.
For some less carefully honed words about the book, here's an interview I gave the school paper. The student who interviewed me had not, she told me afterwards, heard of the Book of Job before being assigned the interview, but she was glad to have learned about it. She added that she'd done some research on it (she didn't have access to my book) and reassured me that everything I'd said squared with what she'd found out! The next day I happened to see her and asked, a little apologetically, if she'd been up all night transcribing (I talked her ear off). No, she said, she'd written it out from memory, and only then gone back to the tape for details. Just sayin'.
For some less carefully honed words about the book, here's an interview I gave the school paper. The student who interviewed me had not, she told me afterwards, heard of the Book of Job before being assigned the interview, but she was glad to have learned about it. She added that she'd done some research on it (she didn't have access to my book) and reassured me that everything I'd said squared with what she'd found out! The next day I happened to see her and asked, a little apologetically, if she'd been up all night transcribing (I talked her ear off). No, she said, she'd written it out from memory, and only then gone back to the tape for details. Just sayin'.
