{"product_id":"frankincense-gold-and-myrrh-a-christmas-chrestomathy-9781587312441","title":"Frankincense, Gold, and Myrrh: A Christmas Chrestomathy","description":"For over thirty years, Joseph Bottum has been writing widely acclaimed Christmas essays, columns, short stories, and carols for American magazines and newspapers. Now, for the first time, St. Augustine's Press has gathered a selection of these classic pieces--with a vast range across the Christmas spectrum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There's the comic: \"Tinsel. No one needs tinsel. Even the word is a tinselly kind of word.\" There's the sentimental: \"Her hair was the same thin shade of gray as the weather-beaten pickets of the fence around her frozen garden.\" There's the reminiscent: \"Christmas was books, and books Christmas, in those days now mostly washed down to the cold sea.\" Along the way, there's the theological, the learned, the mystical, and the musical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tastefulness is just small-mindedness pretending to be art,\" he writes in praise of mad and cluttered holidays. \"Christmas will not be defined by our failures to apply its lessons and carols,\" he explains about Yuletide poetry. To see these essays and short stories gathered in one place--in a beautiful illustrated edition from St. Augustine's Press--is to see the whole of the vision that Joseph Bottum has been painting for decades: a picture of Christmas as a thin place in the wall between the natural and the numinous, where a burning grace slips into a cold winter world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3905620\"\u003eJoseph Bottum\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Augustine's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587312441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587312441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Bottum is one of the nation's most widely ranging thinkers, with hundreds of essays, reviews, poems, and short stories in publications from the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include the sociological study, An Anxious Age, and Christopher Award-winning children's verse. his popular writing extends to obituaries in\u003ci\u003e The Times of London\u003c\/i\u003e and #1- bestselling sports essays in Amazon's Kindle singles series, with lyrics performed by singers from Nashville to Carnegie Hall. A native of South Dakota, Bottum lives in the Black Hills, where he writes on literature, philosophy, and the American condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Augustine's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48462852391149,"sku":"9781587312441","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_159c3ed1-77d1-4c93-b5c4-ac20e9cc26e5.jpg?v=1753710339","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/frankincense-gold-and-myrrh-a-christmas-chrestomathy-9781587312441","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}