Excerpt from the novel-in-progress Faithful Unbeliever

. After lunch we all file into the auditorium for the next presentation. There is a long introduction about how the next person who will take the stage is the reason we’re all here. How when, years ago, he was fired from the university, it created a rupture, an opening through which so much of our current thinking so actively flowed. He’s been abroad all of these years, in some sense in exile, and…