Inspirational literature, circa 1998?

November 25, 2014 9:26 AM

I'm looking for a book of non-cheesy inspirational literature from around 1998...details inside.

I bought a softcover book in 1998 that I really liked. I loaned it to someone and never got it back but I'd like to have it again.

My memories are vague but:
1) It was an anthology of inspirational literature. Middle to high brow. I think stuff like Wendell Berry and Thoureau (but I'm not sure if those two were actually in there).
2) It was a thick softcover, probably 300-400 pages
3) I think it might have had a plaid cover with a rectangular title box in the middle.

That's pretty much all I can remember. Does anyone have any ideas? I bought it in a book store in East Hampton, NY, I'm pretty sure it was 1998. It was on display.

posted by sully75 to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

Work and the Life of the Spirit seems to be a good match: 1998, 305pp., anthology of inspirational lit, includes those two authors and many like them, rectangular center box amid busy design, etc.
posted by Monsieur Caution at 9:48 AM on November 25, 2014

Might it have been one of the Graywolf Annuals?

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/graywolf-annual-five
posted by themanwho at 9:50 AM on November 25, 2014

That's a good description of a book I have, called Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart. Published 1991, but I think I got it on remainder years after that. It is full of good, pithy readings and I've used it many time for occasions and public speaking and that sort of thing.
posted by Miko at 10:15 PM on November 25, 2014