Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links, December 17, 2021
+ Katy Carl’s 12/13 interview about her new novel is on YouTube.
+ Another YouTube video shows a tiny hermitage with a beautiful chapel—constructed by a part-time hermit part-time trekker priest in the Italian alps.
+ Reveling in unfinished conversion journeys.
+ A Christmas novella of how daily life radically changed for Catholics after the Chinese Communist Revolution and how the faith survived in one old Catholic man’s heart
Friday Links, November 12, 2021
+ James Matthew Wilson announces the first annual Summer Writers Institute.
+ Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life.
+ Can signing your name to a graffiti-ed wall affirm your enrollment in the communion of saints?
+ What do you think? Is Sally Rooney this generation’s greatest Catholic novelist?
Friday Links, October 8, 2021
+ Ever wonder if Chaucer could save your life? Terence Sweeney tells you why not. And then tells why you should read him anyways.
+ Iconographer Raymond Vincent’s lectures cover the origins, the theology, and the growth of sacred art.
+ Michele McAloon interviews Katy Carl about her newly published first novel, As Earth Without Water.
+ Karen Ullo’s 2018 book, Jennifer the Damned, gets a glowing recommendation in a Tweet.
+ Ottowa’s Chaudiere Books asks resident writer Natalie Morrill six questions.
+ Prof. Timothy Bartel teaches how to read sonnets in a Catholic Literary Arts class.
Friday Links, September 24, 2021
+ Catholic Literary Arts Fall Series of workshops and lectures.
+ Katy Carl’s new novel, reviews, comments, & first day sales.
+ Duncan Stroik interviewed about positive trends in sacred architecture.
Friday Links, August 27, 2021
+ Tree of Life—Living vine crucifix
+ “Christian Humanism in Modern Literature” podcast by Lee Oser
+ A Christmas ghost story contest
+The Vocation of cinema and the nature of cinephilia by Thomas Mirus
Friday Links, August 20, 2021
+ A podcast discussing Hopkins’ poem, “God’s Grandeur.”
+ Fatima Shaik, only the third African American and the first Black woman to win the 2021 Louisiana Writer’s Award.
+ What would public literary criticism and scholarship mean?
Friday Links, June 25, 2021
+ Sixth Power of the Word Conference will explore the “call of literature” for authors and readers.
+ About the ways number and logic underlie the entirety of Dante’s Commedia.
+ Congratulations to DT editorial assistant Mary Woods on her first novel!
+ Two Internet novels get us closer to understanding the experience of life online.
Friday Links, May 7, 2021
News about some doings of Dappled Things' Friends
Friday Links, April 23, 2021
Catholic lit; comic heroes of color; El Greco, &c.
Friday Links, April 9, 2021
New MFA; Pope writes about Dante; & misc. more
Friday Links, March 19, 2021
Flannery, mapping the Church, a good doctor, & AI
Friday Links, February 26, 2021
Corpse Flower, Poem; Claude McKay, Poet; Retreat…
Friday Links, February 12, 2021
Art discoveries, African American saints to be . . .
Friday Links, January 22, 2021
Resources, Lent writing contest, and four reviews
Friday Links, November 20, 2020
Advent, O Antiphons, Announcements
Friday Links, May 8, 2020
This week's links from Dappled Things editors.