THE BEST SPIRITUAL WRITING 2002
, ; intro. by Natalie Goldberg. . Harper San Francisco, $15.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-06-050603-2
Zaleski's fifth annual collection of the best spiritual writing achieves something memorable and fresh in a year marked by an upsurge in the sheer quantity of spiritual writing. A number of the essays of course deal with last autumn's terrorist attacks; Vincent Druding's "Ground Zero: A Journal" chronicles the 24-year-old author's first day at work in downtown Manhattan. The day was September 11, and he was coming out of the subway when the World Trade Center was hit. Other essays don't address September 11 specifically, but seem particularly timely in its aftermath: Joseph Epstein analyzes the spectrum of fear and courage in "What Are You Afraid Of?", and Amy Schwartz pays tribute to C. S. Lewis's
Reviewed on: 09/09/2002
Genre: Nonfiction