No More Banned Books: Discussion in LA

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books of 2018 was a great chance to hear people’s questions about Roger Williams and annouce the audiobook of Rekindled is now available. I came away knowing there are lots and lots of people interested in thinking through the questions/discussions that Roger Williams dealt with and that we still deal with today. What follows is a sampling of our discussions, and I’ve added information that I had to look up later in a few cases where I wasn’t able to quote Roger Williams off the top of my head.

Why is Rekindled fiction if Roger Williams was real?

Roger Williams is historical, and any known historical record is not (knowingly) contradicted in the book. As with any history, the detail of most conversations is not known, and in the case of Roger Williams many relavent letters were burned. There is a list of characters at the back that indicates where the facts ended and the fictional extrapolation began.

I’ve written other blog posts on why Rekindled (and some other books currently labeled as nonfiction) are most conservatively labeled fiction: