The Matt Walsh Show

Andrew Klavan, the new book is The Kingdom of Cain, Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, which is available right now to go buy on Amazon.

The Kingdom of Cain ends with, if I may say so, I think it's one of the best 30 pages I ever wrote. It's a walk through a museum to look at famous paintings.

And it ends with returning to the Piet, Michelangelo's statue of Mary holding the dead body of Christ.

Okay, well, Anja Clever, the book, The Kingdom of Cain, Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, which is available right now and you should go pick it up.

The Kingdom of Cain, Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, is a deep look at how art can point to God even in the darkest places.

Our friend and colleague Andrew Klavan has a brand-new book out, and it's a must-read. Get your copy today at https://store.dailywire.com/

Only Klavan could take Cain and Abel, Dostoevsky, and Hitchcock and pull out a powerful case for faith in a fallen world.

It's sharp, it's moving, and it's exactly what you expect from a best-selling novelist and one of the wisest guys at Daily Wire.

I've won two of them and I've just been nominated for my sixth one for my book kingdom of Cain, which is nominated in the critical biographical category.

Andrew Klavan's NY Times bestselling nonfiction book, "The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness" has been nominated for an Edgar Award!

the Grimm Brothers' version of the story ... the stepsisters suffered a biblical Old Testamentstyle punishment in the end. In the end, during the wedding ... the doves fly down and strike the two stepsisters' eyes ... they were blinded.

Wicked, a story that's billed as a kind of prequel to The Wizard of Oz, it took the same edgy and subversive angle where the villain is actually a misunderstood hero.

But now, like some bizarro version of The Wizard of Oz,

He reminds me of that that guy in The Wizard of Oz you know when you pull back the curtain it's a really small dude.

The wizard of us you know the little small dude from Wizard of Oz.

a new book by lefty Democrat Representative Cori Bush debuted with a face plant this month, selling 729 copies in its first week, according to industry tracker NPD Bookstand. The Forerunner, A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America, was released by Knopf on October 4.

the book is billed as a political memoir which delves into Bush's history as a minimum wage worker, survivor of sexual violence, and Black Lives Matter activist.

a new book by lefty democrat Representative Cori Bush debuted with a face plant this month selling 729 copies in its first week according to industry tracker NPD book stand The Forerunner a story of pain and perseverance in America was released by Knopf on October 4th

the publisher paid Bush an antipolice socialist who stoked BLM riots in 2020 ... things only went downhill from there with NPD reporting just 288 books sold in its second week

the book is billed as a political memoir which delves into Bush's history as a minimum wage worker survivor of sexual violence and black lives matter activist

industry insiders called the book launch mediocre ... the public yawn comes despite an intense marketing blitz which included fawning reviews from friendly outlets like New York Magazine and Forbes Women

A new book by lefty Democrat Representative Cori Bush debuted ... The Forerunner, a story of pain and perseverance in America, was released by Knopf on October 4th.

The book is billed as a political memoir which delves into Bush's history as a minimum wage worker, survivor of sexual violence, and Black Lives Matter activist.

The Forerunner sold 729 copies in its first week and only 288 in its second week, a stark commercial disappointment.

The book received glowing testimonials from Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Hoover, and Joy Reid.

I've always gravitated towards things like The Problem Of Pain, mere Christianity, stuff like that.

I suspect that if C.S. Lewis were alive today and I think Problem with Pain is a great book which is one of the best treatments of this question that I think has ever been produced by a Christian.

I would read those three, uh, and then, and then branch out from there. ... I would read that next problem of pain deals with his answer for the, you know, The Problem Of Pain and suffering.

The other thing about the Bible is the bestselling book of all time.

And there are many stories in the Bible that are, I mean, aside from the incredible, the truth and the spiritual significance as people of faith, they're also just great stories as well that have, of course, more than stood the test of time.

So what is both the bestselling book of all time and the bestselling book each and every year? You might be surprised to hear that even today it is still the Bible.

I think we all recognize that the wisdom of the Bible has stood the test of time and we also know that it's well worth everyone's time to read this jewel of a book but having time to read anything these days is proving more and more difficult.

That's why the audio Bible app Dwell exists.

begin your journey of rediscovering wisdom and truth found in this timeless book.

There's a book called In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson and it was published probably 25 years ago. And it's kind of a travel memoir about his time in Australia. It's a great book. It's very funny.

And that book contributed to my impression of Australia as a rugged place with rugged and sort of eccentric people. Where you've got giant spiders and snakes and all this, like everything wants to kill you all the time.

I read a book a few years ago by an author by the name of Bill Bryson, excellent author, excellent book. It was called In a Sunburned Country and it was all about Bryson's adventure down under in Australia.

He was killing women and digging up some dead women ... That was the inspiration for first the novel Psycho and then the film Psycho.

And so in exploring books like, exploring stories like Psycho, Silence of the Lambs ... Crime and Punishment specifically ...

Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock has similar themes, silence of the lambs has themes in that ballpark as well. Of course I wouldn't expect these book burners to know that because they've only read one book in their lives Harry Potter and even their knowledge of film goes back no further than about 2006.

she knows her book of Mormon.

he knows her book of mormon

I think that, yeah, I was talking recently about the book Sapiens by Yuval Harari and a book that as I said I found interesting even though I disagree with 85% of it. He argues that rights don't exist. He says that they're just a cultural myth that we came up with for obvious reasons it makes society work.

It's a book called Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

I disagree profoundly with a lot of the stuff in the book; it's basically a polemic against the agricultural revolution and antireligion, though it does have some genius elements.

At the very beginning of Cormac McCarthy's excellent postapocalyptic book, The Road, the protagonist, who's never given a name, says of his son ... the child is my warrant, and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is the best novel of the 21st century so far I wholeheartedly agree and it's my all time favorite novel I first read it as a 16 year old and thought I liked it because it was a nuclear apocalypse book I'm reading it again after discovering my wife is pregnant and it turns out I love this book because it's about fatherhood

I first picked it up maybe 6, 7 years ago at a bookstore and I hated it I read maybe 15 pages of 15, 20 pages I sat there and read it and thought it was terrible I put it down and then a couple years ago I was motivated to pick it up again and my reaction could not have been any different it was a total 180 in terms of my perception of the book and I found it to be really powerful and moving I think I read the whole thing maybe not in one night but in two nights

the story revolves around this father desperately trying to protect his son at all costs, not just physically but also keeping the fire of goodness alive within them, even as the world collapses into cannibalism and chaos

I also thought it was just really well written Cormac McCarthy's style of writing is not for everybody it takes you getting used to it but now I kind of appreciate it

The Denial of Death is a book. I mentioned the show before was written in the 70s by a guy named Ernest Becker who ironically died shortly after it was published; he won a Pulitzer I think for the book but was not alive to receive it because he had died.

There was a book written decades ago by a guy named Ernest Becker, which I just read recently as a matter of fact, somebody recommended it to me. And the book is called Denial of Death.

He was a psychoanalyst and there's a lot in his theory that I don't agree with... the central thesis of his book, in my opinion, is compelling and persuasive.

He argued that our repressed anxiety about death is a driving factor in our lives and in the culture, and that much of human culture is set up specifically to distract us from thoughts of death.

So much of human culture, in fact, according to him, is set up specifically to distract us from and to evade thoughts of death.

He won the poll surprise for that book a few months after it was released, but he wasn't around to receive the award because he died shortly after finishing the book.

i just read a book uh called In the Heart of the Sea about a group of 19th century whalers who were shipwrecked in the middle of the pacific

I'm reading In the Heart of the Sea, the tragedy of the whale ship Essex, the story that MobyDick was based on, about a whaling ship in 1820 that sails around South America, kills whales, and the crew faces brutal challenges.

Mein Kampf, for example, is still for sale on their site. Hitler's viewpoints are still considered acceptable enough to warrant inclusion in Amazon's catalog, but scientific facts about transgenderism are not.

They made it clear that there is essentially no difference between reading and enjoying a book critical of Antifa and pledging allegiance to Hitler after reading Mein Kampf.

Talk about laying down the law. Yep, Jennifer Lawrence, who knows a thing or two about dystopian societies, said that if Donald Trump becomes the president, it'll be the end of the world. That's right. The 25yearold didn't hold anything back in a recent interview discussing the release of The Hunger Games, Mockingjay Part 2.

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