Lucy S. R. Austen
@lucysrausten.bsky.social
Author. Editor. Lover of hot tea. Interested in almost everything.
Full-length single-volume biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, available now.
Full-length single-volume biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, available now.
Helpful review of a new biography of Willa Cather. "Spangling the narrative are quotes from Cather’s letters (until they were published in 2013, they could only be paraphrased), which give a sense of her vivid voice."
A Swift, Opinionated Portrait of Willa Cather (She Would Have Approved)
“Chasing Bright Medusas,” a new biography by Benjamin Taylor, aims not to uncover new facts but to provide a concise introduction to the novelist.
bit.ly
November 13, 2023 at 10:07 PM
Helpful review of a new biography of Willa Cather. "Spangling the narrative are quotes from Cather’s letters (until they were published in 2013, they could only be paraphrased), which give a sense of her vivid voice."
Reposted by Lucy S. R. Austen
A cat is a cat is a cat.
London Zoo.
London Zoo.
November 7, 2023 at 6:19 PM
A cat is a cat is a cat.
London Zoo.
London Zoo.
“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. 1/
November 6, 2023 at 2:51 PM
“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. 1/
Also, four more days until my next Elisabeth Elliot book discussion post goes out on Substack. I hope you'll join us!
October 27, 2023 at 10:05 PM
Also, four more days until my next Elisabeth Elliot book discussion post goes out on Substack. I hope you'll join us!
I am hopelessly behind on social media, and especially on reading all the wonderful things everyone else is posting. My only excuse is that I've been writing like mad and also supervising some important puddle-stomping efforts.
October 27, 2023 at 9:46 PM
I am hopelessly behind on social media, and especially on reading all the wonderful things everyone else is posting. My only excuse is that I've been writing like mad and also supervising some important puddle-stomping efforts.
Reposted by Lucy S. R. Austen
“Rather than trying to tidy her up, we have to find a way to live with the complexity. We can’t neaten her up enough to put her in one box or category. Really, probably, that’s true of all of us.”
— @lucysrausten.blsky.social
— @lucysrausten.blsky.social
October 20, 2023 at 3:28 AM
“Rather than trying to tidy her up, we have to find a way to live with the complexity. We can’t neaten her up enough to put her in one box or category. Really, probably, that’s true of all of us.”
— @lucysrausten.blsky.social
— @lucysrausten.blsky.social
Reposted by Lucy S. R. Austen
“In “Elisabeth Elliot: A Life,” S. R. Austen does for Elliot what Elliot tried to do for missionary work: show depth and complexity without shoehorning suffering into a tidy package.”
I really enjoyed the chance to talk with Megan for this piece.
More Than a Sermon Illustration – byFaith
t.co
October 20, 2023 at 3:26 AM
“In “Elisabeth Elliot: A Life,” S. R. Austen does for Elliot what Elliot tried to do for missionary work: show depth and complexity without shoehorning suffering into a tidy package.”
On memory, life-writing, and the self. "Do I tell a story, or do I tell you how it feels to have only the remains of one? The first is certainly a better story. But the second is better history. Which do I really want?"
Mere Belief, by Sallie Tisdale
Sliding down the curve of forgetting
harpers.org
October 20, 2023 at 7:17 PM
On memory, life-writing, and the self. "Do I tell a story, or do I tell you how it feels to have only the remains of one? The first is certainly a better story. But the second is better history. Which do I really want?"
I have an essay up today at Current, reflecting on the particular challenges and potential gifts of biography for Christians.
What Has Faith to Do with Biography?
Elisabeth Elliot was not just a subject to write about. She was a writer to emulate.
t.co
October 19, 2023 at 4:37 PM
I have an essay up today at Current, reflecting on the particular challenges and potential gifts of biography for Christians.
I really enjoyed the chance to talk with Megan for this piece.
More Than a Sermon Illustration – byFaith
t.co
October 18, 2023 at 7:25 PM
I really enjoyed the chance to talk with Megan for this piece.
"[S. R. Austen's] masterful command of Elliot’s published writings and private correspondence is apparent. This is a biography of the flesh-and-blood Elliot.” t.co/EkJmXGFKso
October 18, 2023 at 3:10 PM
"[S. R. Austen's] masterful command of Elliot’s published writings and private correspondence is apparent. This is a biography of the flesh-and-blood Elliot.” t.co/EkJmXGFKso
Writing and writing and not posting—but I am getting in some Octobering.
October 6, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Writing and writing and not posting—but I am getting in some Octobering.
First fire of the season in the woodstove today. Looking forward to toasting my toes while I write.
October 3, 2023 at 5:57 PM
First fire of the season in the woodstove today. Looking forward to toasting my toes while I write.
I launched a discussion of my biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, today over at Substack.
bit.ly/3F13zQA
bit.ly/3F13zQA
October 2, 2023 at 1:46 PM
I launched a discussion of my biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, today over at Substack.
bit.ly/3F13zQA
bit.ly/3F13zQA