to justify a thought or action that is not good for the soul". Fitzhugh also explains how he thought it was interesting Lewis wrote from the perspective of Screwtape and that he wrote from the same perspective in the song. The group The Oh Hellos released the album Dear Wormwood which they have described as a form of speculative fiction from the point of view of "the patient". The three-part song "Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth" on the 2021 album "Laysongs" by mandolinist Chris Thile was inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Political discourse President Ronald Reagan quoted from The Screwtape Letters in his famous 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. Antonin Scalia, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed by Reagan, had professed his admiration for the book. In a 2013 interview with New York magazine, Scalia remarked: "The Screwtape Letters is a great book. It really is, just as a study of human nature." The book was mentioned in the highly publicized interview during Scalia's discourse regarding the nature of his Catholic faith. The Screwtape Letters was known to be the favorite book of Andrew Cunanan, the spree killer and C. S. Lewis enthusiast best known for his 1997 murder of designer Gianni Versace. References Bibliography . External links 1942 fantasy novels 1942 British novels Demons in written fiction Bureaucracy in fiction Novels set in hell Novels set during World War II Books by C. S. Lewis Epistolary novels British fantasy novels Novels by C. S. Lewis Works originally published in The Guardian (Anglican newspaper) Geoffrey Bles books