This blog is a joint production of Matt and Christopher, who decided to "co-read" G.K. Chesterton's "metaphysical thriller" about anarchist plotters, the 1908 novel, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare. Our interest in the book and in Chesterton was spurred by Adam Gopnik's recent profile of the writer in the New Yorker. Though a century old, the book is apparnetly quite a searching - and entertaining - exploration of terrorism, among other subjects. If you are so inclined, you can read The Man Who Was Thursday through Google Books.
Our "co-reading" plan entails making separate posts on five consecutive Thursdays, starting on August 7, in which we offer our thoughts on three chapters in the novel. We'll then reply to each other via additional posts over the following week; blog readers are welcome to post comments about how we're bad readers, writers, anarchists, and Christians. We won't mind - but we might put your name on the blacklist we're keeping for the day we take over.
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