Rebecca Goldstein

"Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

"Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading—from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a ‘first woman’ who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar.” Evan Thomas, author of Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World

Megan Marshall is the author of The Peabody sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and memoir. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Slate. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, Marshall teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.

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Rebecca Goldstein , 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.

Critically acclaimed author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein will read from and sign her novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. Goldstein’s latest offering chronicles the life of atheist Cass Seltzer, a newly-famous author whose beliefs are challenged by new acquaintances and skeletons from his past, and she uses a diverse cast of characters to explore the debate between faith and reason. Goldstein’s first novel, The Mind-Body Problem, was written in part to illustrate the impact of philosophy and intellectual struggles on one’s daily life. It met with widespread critical and popular success and is considered one of the most important and thought-provoking books of the decade. She is the author of numerous novels and story collections, and her writing has garnered a number of awards, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. In addition to her Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships, Goldstein became a MacArthur Fellow in 1996. When awarding her the prize, which is often referred to as the “Genius Award,” the MacArthur Foundation described her as “…a writer whose novels and short stories dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling. Her books tell a compelling story as they describe with wit, compassion and originality the interaction of mind and heart. In her fiction her characters confront problems of faith: religious faith and faith in an ability to comprehend the mysteries of the physical world as complementary to moral and emotional states of being. Goldstein’s writings emerge as brilliant arguments for the belief that fiction in our time may be the best vehicle for involving readers in questions of morality and existence.” (booksense)… (more)

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein promotes 36 Arguments for the Existence of God.

MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza) returns with a novel that follows the riotous saga of a newly famous atheist academic. Jonathan Safran Foer calls the book "A hilarious novel about people’s existential agonies… deeply moving and a joy to read." (lemontwist)… (more)