In her first work of nonfiction, Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession, bestselling writer Anne Rice pens a memoir about her transition from long-time atheist and popular gothic horror writer of the dark Vampire Chronicles series, to a Christian fiction author converted back to the Church - much to the sudden shock of her fans. Beginning with her childhood in New Orleans, when she fully embraced her Catholic faith and seriously considered entering a convent, Called Out recounts Rice’s loss of faith during her years in radical Berkeley, where she came under the spell of secular humanists, and as she encountered loss and alienation with her mother’s drinking, and the deaths of her young daughter and later, her husband. Always uneasy with her four decades of atheism, however, she struggled with wavering belief, and longed for her lost faith. Finally, in 1998, she reconciled herself to the Catholic Church and found that its character had altered greatly since her youth. In 2002, she made a firm, personal decision to commit her writing from then on to God, particularly with an acclaimed series based on the life of Christ.
Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
By Edmund White
- Situations have ended sad
Relationship have all been bad
Mine've been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud
But there's no way I can compare
All those scenes to this affair
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
("Your Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" — Bob Dylan)
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