Up until now I have been shamefully uninterested in reading the Apocrypha. Curious, but not curious enough to do anything about it. But now! Remember when I told you that my friend
Tom Bissell was going to visit
the graves of all twelve apostles and
write a book about it? Well, he did it. And in one paragraph he catalogs some of the characters we'll meet in the Apocrypha: "
fish resurrected from the dead, sentient
dogs... unusually loquacious
demons... a talking baby
goat and
leopard, who adorably take Communion together... of all things, a
werewolf."