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November 13, 2026
Oates vs. O’Connor
New Romantics in the Thick Real: On Joshua Hren and Sally Thomas
Varsity Verse: The Glory Days of the Powow River Poets
Catholic Literary Arts and Mr. Prynne
Oates vs. O’Connor
Cassandra Nelson on the train wreck that is Joyce Carol Oates’s Twitter feed:
Here is the heart of the matter. Oates’s mistake is not finally about substance and accidents, though Michael Knowles and other Good Samaritans tried in vain to introduce the distinction. It is projection, the kind a leveling age encourages. Having seldom let her own words bind her, Oates assumes O’Connor couldn’t have either.
New Romantics in the Thick Real: On Joshua Hren and Sally Thomas
An excellent double review from DT’s very own John-Paul Heil on Joshua Hren’s Blue Walls Falling Down and Sally Thomas’s The Blackbird and Other Stories:
Two recent small press releases, Joshua Hren’s Blue Walls Falling Down and Sally Thomas’s The Blackbird and Other Stories, showcase the transformative creativity that New Romanticism can bring to long-established genres, in this case the novel and the short story, through an attention to marriage and family.
Varsity Verse: The Glory Days of the Powow River Poets
A wonderful interview with Alfred Nicol and Len Krisak on the Powow River Poets.
Catholic Literary Arts and Mr. Prynne
Join Catholic Literary Arts in a conversation about Mr Prynne, a recently released novel by J. A. Gray that reimagines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. In a recent review, Joan Bauer calls Mr. Prynne an excellent adaption.