Friday Links, June 19, 2020
The Moment in Race Relations That Keeps Repeating Itself
In this essay from Church Life Journal, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell includes an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor, in reaction to the racially motivated killing of Ahmaud Arbery in O’Connor’s native Georgia this past February 23rd.
Soul-Crushing, Family-Friendly, Inspirational Trash
Joshua Gibbs writes at the Circe Institute about his discovery that a PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) rating doesn't mean that a movie will not be "chock-full of soul-crushing, family-friendly, inspirational nonsense."
The Scar of Odysseus
James Matthew Wilson: I should be writing a book. Instead, I made this short film of one of my favorite poems from The Hanging God:
The exceptional Catholic novelist behind the popular Downton Abbey
Katy Carl: "Mostly sharing because I didn’t know he was a novelist or a Catholic. The article itself doesn’t get into very much about his novels other than 'they’re good.'”
In the essay, James Baresel writes at Catholic World Report that Fellowes "greatest achievements from an artistic perspective has been as a novelist." Fellowes' London Times best-selling novels Snobs and Past Imperfect "are artistic works of a quality which, though not equaling the works of Waugh, approaches to and can fairly be compared with them."
Writers’ Museum of Edinburgh, Scotland
The Writers’ Museum in Edinburgh celebrates the lives of three giants of Scottish Literature – Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. The museum is closed because of Covid-19 until July 9, 2020 and does not have any online galleries, but I'm including this photo and link, just because the building is lovely to look at and it's comforting, somehow, to know it exists.
