Bestselling author Rob Bell shares insight from his new book, Drops Like Stars: A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering. The book is a visual commentary discussing the relationship between creativity and suffering and delivers insight into its complex intersection. Bell guides readers to a place where agony meets art and pain encounters transformation.

Bell is a founding pastor at Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., where attendance averages around 8,000 per week. An additional 50,000+ download his talks each week. He joins Writers Talk during a stop on his world-tour book promotion, to speak with guest host Dan Shellenbarger.