Old Blues Chapter and Verse | Maybe Midrash: A Conversation with Haven Kimmel @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Apologies, at the outset, for how nervous I might come across at times in the video. I've spent the better part of a week doing my best to conquer Zoom, and it has rattled me. Plus it was just nerve-wracking to see my friend for the first time in years and know that it's being recorded for posterity (and without the safety net of editing!). I hope I did alright. Haven was, predictably, brilliant. #maybemidrash

Haven Kimmel's eight books are:

- A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
- She Got Up Off the Couch: and Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
- The Solace of Leaving Early
- Something Rising (Light and Swift)
- The Used World
- Iodine
- Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House
- Orville: A Dog Story

Midrashy books recommended by Haven in this video:

- The Gospels in Our Image: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry Based on Biblical Texts, edited by David Curson
- 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn
- Gospel by Wilton Barnhardt
- A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell

Other books mentioned in the video:

- The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Father Melancholy's Daughter by Gail Godwin
- Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman
- He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art by Christian Wiman
- My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg