Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
with A. M. Juster; Benjamin P. Myers on B. H. Fairchild’s An Ordinary Life; Johann Christoph Arnold on forgiveness; Mark Hemingway on Ryan Adams; D. C. Schindler on Retrieving Freedom; Collegium Seminar on Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathens Rage?
Ending on the name of Mary
Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and the seeds of hope.
Friday Links
with the Poor Clares of Arundal; Poems Ancient and Modern on South Dakota public radio; Mark Bauerlein on the Carthusians of Vermont; Seth Wieck on how books find us; LuElla D’Amico reviews Fragile Objects by Katy Carl
Andy Warhol as puzzle
The puzzling life of Andy Warhol - Catholic artist?
Friday Links
with David Mason reviews two new books on Lord Byron; Kat Rosenfeld on reading; Joshua Hren on Eugene Vodolazkin; Well Read Mom: Changing women’s lives through great books; Valerie reviews Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek, Cyril O’Regan on BXVI
One-hundred years on: Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River”
“A kind of private liturgy played out in much of Hemingway’s writing, which included not only the what and why of things, but the how.”
Friday Links
Pray the Regina Caeli during Eastertide; Cyril O’Regan in Church Life Journal; Mary Oliver; Eve Tushnet on Mariette in Ecstasy; Conor Sweetman on how The Church Loses When Our Arts Communities Die
Our 2023 Jacques Maritain Prize Winners!
Our 2023 Winners of the Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction!
Poetry is a holy waste
“As a young girl, I heard my father say to me, “God is a mathematician.” He cited the stars, the way the planets move, the infinite complexity of creation, and physics. Possessing somewhat other than a passion for math myself, I protested…Mathematics are beautiful. And yet. And yet I can’t think God only occupies himself with working out math problems in the heavens…God also loves poetry.”
Friday Links
with Byun-Chul Han; Melina Moe on Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters; William Tate reviews Jane Greer’s poetry; Carina Hodder in The Lamp
On being a paperboy
“I walk the streets…all the houses are connected, block upon never-ending block, on and on. In a lot of them, they read my newspapers. The same newspapers. A seed is planted in my soul without my realizing it. I’m unconscious of it for a long while as the seed’s roots reach out for nourishment. It’s the writing that connects them.”
Friday Links
Dappled Things Internship Opportunities!
Dappled Things welcomes applications from young editors and writers.
For those who cannot pray - T.S. Eliot’s waste land
Salvation through the cross; The Quartets through The Waste Land. So when we cannot pray, when our waste lands are too dense with debris and falsehood, we should pray in and with them, for the end is already decided.
Why Don’t the Christians Rage?
Friday Links
Ivana Greco reviews Tim Carney’s new book; Patrick Tomassi on Brideshead Revisited During Lent; After Lord Byron: Poetic advice for the modern poet; R. J. Snell on Thomism at 750; Steven Greydanus on ‘Dune: Part Two’
Our 2023 J.F. Powers Prize Short List!
We are thrilled to share with you our 2023 J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction finalists!
In search of lost ale
Like fermentation, Homeric nostimon blooms with age. But is it real?
Friday Links
with a St. Patrick’s Day poem from Poems Ancient and Modern; a Mary Lou Williams Lecture and Gala Performance at the Hank Center; Sally Thomas on Jessica Wooten Wilson’s, Why Do the Heathen Rage?; James Matthew Wilson on the “somewhat exaggerated death of poetry”; & David Schaengold on ugly, poorly built buildings