Losing My Religion: A Reading List

Losing My Religion: A Reading List:

“How Does It End?” (David Burr Gerrard, Guernica, September 2014)

Scott Cheshire’s past as a child preacher intersects with his current writing in unusual, apocalyptic ways. In this interview, Cheshire discusses the power of literature, growing up a Jehovah’s Witness, and the writing process for his novel, High as the Horses’ Bridles: “From the beginning, I wanted to write a novel with a hole in it—at least that’s how I referred to it. It was the only way I could articulate the problem, because faith does not fall away in a day—and sometimes reluctantly or not entirely at all.”