Hoover Institution research fellow Mary Eberstadt discussed her latest work, The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism (Ignatius Press, 2010). An epistolary satire of the new atheism, The Loser Letters is her first work of fiction.

Eberstadt discussed the two levels on which this satire operates, one religious and one extrareligious, with particular attention to the latter. Not only religion itself, she argued, but also the rich and irreplaceable record of its aesthetic and other accomplishments is jeopardized by contemporary attempts to wipe the public square clean of God. Following Eberstadt's remarks, Catherine Eberstadt, the author's daughter, read from the book.