godless Resources

This is from Pete Hautman's website. We like the backstory about where Chutengodianism came from, plus a peek into PH's thoughts.

This is the complete Chutengodian Bible. As in all the bits at the beginning of each chapter and a portion from Chapter 10.

A water tower with a restaurant? And where, oh where is the world's tallest water tower?

Pete Hautman's realio, trulio thoughts on water towers and asparagus.

You must know you've arrived as a provocative author when they threaten to ban your book. Here's Pete Hautman's blog post with his thoughts on censorship in response to some high school parents in Mississippi asking for godless to be removed from a summer reading list.

This is a vid PH did in 2011 on dealing with bullies.

Jenny Sawyer gives godless a brief, pithy rundown and review.

An adaptation of Chapter 1 of godless. This brief video was shot by film student Lucas Francy for his director's scene workshop class at SUNY. We especially dig the Shin-esque sketches at the beginning with the voice over of the Chutengodian Genesis.

Not really. This is a Minnesota Public Radio interview with Pete Hautman about teen readers, stealing cars (and his novel titled How to Steal a Car), and other stuff.

As released in the US, godless the shiny American Book Award Winner emblem on it.

This is pretty cool. You gotta check out all the detail included.

Author photo from his website. He subtitles it: "Pete Hautman smiling. This is what I look like when somebody is taking a photo of me."

The water tower of Ellsworth, Illinois, is painted like a super-sized baseball.

Disney Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World Florida

At least it's not asparagus.

Though the Collinsville, Illinois, water tower is in the shape of a giant catsup (ketchup?) bottle, we presume it flows with H20.

How's about a lemon-lime shower?

The water tower in Thorpeness, Suffolk, UK was converted to a house. We are moving our office there.