Larry Beinhart on Salvation Boulevard (2008)

Written By Andrew Tonkovich
 

Tuesday, August 27, at 2 PM on KPFK, a final “best of” from the Bibliocracy archives for our summer fund drive, edited to include a reminder that Bibliocracy has been delivering terrific author interviews and readings since 2008. Today, my guest is Larry Beinhart, perhaps best known for a novel adapted into the film Wag the Dog (American Hero) but today talking about and reading from Salvation Boulevard. The novel’s smart, funny, provocative send-up of the enduring mega-church hucksterist political culture —- which, ultimately, helped deliver us Trump —- seems too painfully relevant. It’s both a detective story and a novel of big ideas, about “faith” and skepticism, a murder mystery with philosophical chops.

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