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Robert Anthony Siegel :
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Robert is the author of All Will Be Revealed and All the Money in the World. Born in New York City and educated at Harvard, the University of Tokyo, and the Iowa Writers Workshop, he teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.
July 14th, 2008
Contributing Editor Robert Anthony Siegel is invited to read from his recent novel at Google's distinguished author series
Longtime Busted Halo® contributing editor Robert Anthony Siegel recently traveled to Google's headquarters to participate in the company's prestigious Authors@Google series with a reading from his most recent novel ...
December 13th, 2007
Mailer's final book reimagines God, the devil, heaven, hell and our search for meaning in the world
Who is God? Is he the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful being of Judeo-Christian thought? Or might he be something less ultimate, more vulnerable? Might he even need our help? And ...
December 6th, 2007
Reflections on God from a Spiritual Odd Couple
The Faith Between Us, by Peter Bebergal and Scott Korb, is the story of a failed Jewish mystic and a would-be Catholic priest who meet and become friends while ...
March 6th, 2007
An exclusive excerpt from the soon-to-be-released novel, ALL WILL BE REVEALED, by a BustedHalo contributing editor
Verena Swann sat in her carriage, peeking through the curtain at the crowd of mourners filling the avenue. Derbies, bonnets, slick black umbrellas, here and there a pale, ...
June 16th, 2006
A father remembers the day the world busted open
When my son Jonah was born I would look at his pudgy little face with the wisps of brown hair over his head and feel how deeply the world ...
April 24th, 2006
A Morality play with Mobster style
Will Vito get whacked for wearing leather? Will Paulie forgive his mother for being his aunt? Will Carmela ever succeed in building that million-dollar spec house out of cardboard and glue? As ...
April 7th, 2006
Colliding head-on with religion (and myself) deep in the heart of Dixie
Growing up Jewish in New York City, I had no idea that I was a member of a ridiculously small religious minority. That blithe unawareness had something to do ...
March 2nd, 2006
The author of Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right talks about America's spiritual crisis
FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover once called Michael Lerner the most dangerous man in America because of his anti-Vietnam war activities. A sixties radical and member of the ...
January 12th, 2006
Critic Harold Bloom wrestles with God in Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
Who is Jesus? Who is God? Is it possible to discuss them apart from theological abstractions, as personalities with distinctly individual ways of seeing the world? And if so, ...
January 16th, 2002
An Infinity of Little Hours: The Trial of Faith of Five Young Men in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
What would it be like to see the face of God with your own eyes? In the year 1084 St. Bruno of Cologne and six companions climbed a mountain in ...
January 13th, 2002
A conversation with the author of An Infinity of Little Hours
BustedHalo: Nancy, your book, An Infinity of Little Hours, is an extraordinary look at life inside a Carthusian monastery, something no one has ever done before. The reason you were able ...
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