Posted by Helen on: 04.18.2007 /
Dave Richards sent me a link to the PRI radio interview: Back to God with Camille Paglia.
Camille was one of the founding writers of Salon.com and has recently resumed writing for them. In her February column she writes:
Though I am a professed atheist, I have been arguing for 20 years that the study of world religions should be basic to the university core curriculum.
Hence the title of the radio interview. The radio interviewer, Chris, asks Camille to elaborate on this in the radio interview.
Camille certainly isn’t afraid to speak (or write) her mind. The beginning of her February Salon column illustrates this well:
Greetings, Salon readers!
My column returns today for the first time since 2001, when I resigned from Salon to focus on writing “Break, Blow, Burn.” On my book tours of the past two years (for the Pantheon hardcover and the Vintage paperback), I was very touched by how many people in the signing lines enthused about my Salon columns and appealed for their return.
I had certainly assumed the Web was surfeited with more than enough material, but evidently many others beside myself find the partisan polarization of the blogosphere numbingly predictable and its prose too often slapdash, fragmentary or drearily prolix.
Comment by: Doreen
1Yes, she’s back, and as self-absorbed as ever!
I believe World Religions is available on most college campuses. I’m not convinced it should be required. Whose/which version of each religion would we use?
Comment by: Karen
2I picked up the paperback “Break, Burn, Blow” out of boredom in an airport while waiting for a delayed flight earlier this month.
Wow, what a treat! It’s an analysis of her 43 favorite English-language poems. You can pick it up any time, page through to a specific poem, and read her incisive, 2- or 3-page comments on that poem.
As an English major with a special affinity for poetry, I highly recommend it. Really a fun read, and very fun for me to revisit some of my favorite poetry from 25 years ago and get a new take on it.