Summerbook 3: Chesterton's Gateway

Chesterton's Gateway, by G. K. Chesterton, compiled by Ethan Nicolle I often listen to a comedic book podcast called The Book Pile , which features two guys, Kellen Erskine and David Vance. Erskine is a full-time comic, and we knew him as a teenager with floppy 90s hair, so we're always interested in how he's doing. Vance is a writer -- he's written sketches for a different comedy group I follow. They're fun to listen to! A little while ago they had a comic-book artist on the show, Ethan Nicolle, to talk about this book he'd put together. (I have never read any of Nicolle's comics; my husband likes him.) So he talked about how he'd gotten really into reading Chesterton, and even had a couple of discussion groups. But he found that most people who wanted to read Chesterton would pick up Orthodoxy , and he didn't think that was a good place to start; Chesterton was mainly an essayist and it's better to start with essays. So he'd put tog...