If you love Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, Sinead O’Connor, Madonna, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, U2, The Neville Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, Andy Warhol, Czesław Miłosz and other artists who wrestles with religious themes in their work you don’t want to miss this conversation with the celebrated biographer and New Yorker columnist Paul Elie.
Paul and I discuss his new book THE LAST SUPPER which also touches on the emergence of the religious right and the moral majority in the 1980s and how that coalition of strange bedfellows reverberates in our culture and politics today. We discuss the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church the emergence of gays as a scapegoat and the role of faith and doubt in the worlds of art and literature.
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