Where Have You Gone C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton?

Christopher Buckley does double duty in this New York Times book review commenting on Joe Eszterhas' A Memoir of Faith and Anne Rice's Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession. It's sad to hear that Buckley does not care much for either book. We, too, would have loved to see a spiritual memoir of epic literary proportions. A grand statement about personal faith written with such skill and care that it would engage even the most professional of cynics, Christopher Hitchens. Buckley pinpoints the hitch in the communication divide succinctly, "..that confessional (and profess-ional) literature is like faith itself: to believers, a tone poem of perfect lucidity and logic; to the unconvinced (in whose camp I squat, nervously clutching Christopher Hitchens’s pant leg) it can sound a little, well, fruity." There it is, the secular/sacred gap, the place where words fail and writers flop.