How Long to Read Interior States

How Long Does it Take to Read Interior States?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction "Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection." --Lorrie Moore A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity: faith, in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere. What does it mean to be a believing Christian and a Midwesterner in an increasingly secular America where the cultural capital is retreating to both coasts? The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country." She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still," and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the fifteen superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection. The subjects of these essays range from the rebranding (as it were) of Hell in contemporary Christian culture ("Hell"), a theme park devoted to the concept of intelligent design ("Species of Origin"), the paradoxes of Christian Rock ("Sniffing Glue"), Henry Ford's reconstructed pioneer town of Greenfield Village and its mixed messages ("Midwest World"), and the strange convergences of Christian eschatology and the digital so-called Singularity ("Ghosts in the Cloud"). Meghan O'Gieblyn stands in relation to her native Midwest as Joan Didion stands in relation to California - which is to say a whole-hearted lover, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time.

How long is Interior States?

Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn is 242 pages long, and a total of 60,984 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Interior States Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 33 minutes to read Interior States aloud.

What Reading Level is Interior States?

Interior States is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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