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Sehnsucht

Jon Pott It was another Eerdmans author, Corbin Scott Carnell, who introduced us, in our office some forty years ago, to his friend Janos Shoemyen (alias Lawrence Dorr). Corbin had published with us a luminous book on spiritual longing—Corbin related it to the German concept of Sehnsucht—in the work of C. S. Lewis, an interest that attuned him as well to the particular sensibilities and literary gifts of his friend. Corbin and Janos were colleagues at the University of Florida,…
Jon Pott
September 1, 2013
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At the Same Party: A Tribute to a Friend

Jon Pott I'm pretty sure that I met Rich Mouw at a party, probably in the late 60s, not long after he had joined the Calvin College philosophy department and I had landed at Eerdmans Publishing. For me, and no doubt for others, he came out of nowhere. Who was this noisy, seemingly unpedigreed character who had had no earlier association with Calvin (or even with the Free University of Amsterdam)? Unprecedented in the philosophy department at the time. The…
Jon Pott
July 1, 2013
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The Real Thing

"Lew," I complained recently in an e-mail to him about his latest manuscript, his spiritual memoir, "you've got to quit sending in revisions, or we'll spend the rest of the month collating and never get to the editing." Lew cared about his prose. In fact, Lew was what editors call a nuisance! He was also thereby what every writer worth his salt must be and what every editor worth her salt deeply loves. Lew was the real thing as a…
Jon Pott
February 15, 2003