The editors would like to thank Shannon [ammal-Hollemans for her fine work in transcribing these conversations and Calvin Collegefor its permission to present them in this special issue of Christianity and Literature. PJC: Good morning. I've been asked to moderate a conversation by two of the best poets in America-Mary Karr and Franz Wright. I don't get far in a conversation without bringing up my favorite novel, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I've been teaching it, and I learned on the way over that Mary Karr loves the book and Franz Wright wrote a paper about it in high school, so I feel comfortable bringing it up. In the novel, there's 697
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