Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Literature Is a Habitation
Austin Suggs with thoughts on Joshua Hren’s new book More Than a Matter of Taste
Keeping Ternary
Jennifer Gill on visiting the graves of famous authors to pray
Seeing and Being Seen
Sally Read’s new book on the secrets to reading poetry
Friday Links
New Verse Review Halloween Issue; How to Talk About Murder; A Guide to Reading Ghost Stories With Russell Kirk; The Valley of Bones
A Body Given Over
Faith, Memory, and the Fragility of Christian Witness in The Body of This Death
An Interview with Dale Phillips, Winner of the Jane Greer Memorial Poetry Contest
Why 3 Popes Think You Should Read Lord of the World
Three popes in a row now have recommended Benson’s 1907 novel.
Friday Links
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
The great director slows us down to inspire reverence.
Friday Links
The Word Alone Is Certain Good
Being the musings of a sometime poet from somewhere near the end of the world.
Friday Links
Catholic Evangelists of the Beat Generation
Were the beatniks secret Catholics?
Friday Links
Is Brideshead Revisited the 20th Century’s Greatest Novel?; Message of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the 60th World Day of Social Communications; Creature and Creator in Frankenstein with Shemaiah Gonzalez; Coltrane’s Shadow; Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Declared ‘Blessed’ at Mass in St. Louis; Lethe by Forester McClatchey
Hyperreality and the Purpose of Fiction
Hyperreality is the experience most manufactured products in the modern world are trying to sell you.
Friday Links
St. Thomas Aquinas on Funny Novels; Ernst Junger’s War as an Inner Experience; Paul Kingsnorth: How HUMANITY beats the MACHINE; Annie Dillard Dies at 81; Award-Winning Author Phil Klay Named President of PEN America
Rest In Peace, Annie Dillard
Denise Trull on what Annie Dillard has meant to her.
All Our Loves Must Be Ordered to a Greater Love
A Thomist reading of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Friday Links
On Being a 9/11 Kid; Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11; More than a Matter of Taste: A Conversation on the Moral Imagination; Eric Cyr: Live in Crosby, MN
Poetry Is the Language of Faith
The veiled nature of faith requires a metaphoric, symphonic language