Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links, February 4, 2022
+ Joshua Hren announces the publication of his first novel and his writers’ manifesto.
+ Heather King interviews herself.
+ City Mother, is reviewed on the day before its release.
+ Catholic Writers Conference coming up February 11-13.
+ Ave Regina Caelorum, the Marian antiphon for this time of year.
+ A CLA class, Finding Faith on the Road, begins early March.
Friday Links, December 3, 2021
+ Dante again, this time he’s inspiring a poetry contest.
+ CUA students launch a literary (and arts) magazine.
+ Joshua Hren will speak at a Scala webinar 12/9 and he’s finally got a website.
+ James Matthew Wilson’s latest, a review.
+ Rhonda Ortiz and Eleanor Bourg Nicholson talk about werewolves, fainting damsels, and genre fiction.
+ Joseph Pearce is grateful for all we all do.
Friday Links, November 26, 2021
+ Angela Alaimo O’Donnell talks back to Dante
+ Anthony Domestico critiques the first-ever biography of Elizabeth Hardwick
+ Aarik Danielsen reviews a work of graphic nonfiction about American loneliness.
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, November 5, 2021
+ James Matthew Wilson podcast interview at Deep Down Things, the podcast (not us)
+ Kerry McCarthy, Early Music singer and biographer of Renaissance composers Byrd and Tallis, is interviewed about the traditional choir schools put down by the Reformation.
+ Word on Fire reminds us that “Momento Mori” is a Catholic thing.
+ In time for Christmas giving, a chance to order artwork by Daniel Mitsui and get a free Momento Mori giclée print you might keep for your own contemplation of the Four Last Things.
Friday Links, October 29, 2021
+ Dark stuff for Halloween
* An invitation to a ZOOM about vampires, werewolves & serial killers, O My!
* An essay with more about the blood-drinking undead at Catholic World Report
* An EWTN interview with K.V. Turley and Fiorella De Maria about their novel about Bela Lugosi
* An article by Turley about the real horrors lived by Lugosi
* Ghost stories collected by Gerard Manley Hopkins
* Thirst: A Novel: Death of a priest
* The first horror moving picture—in 1896 (it really was scary!)
+ A round-up of print and online essays in DT’s “Symposium on Motherhood and Art”
Friday Links, October 22, 2021
+ Workshop on how to make space for the muse.
+ Three poems by a DT associate editor
+ Maybe Catholic fiction is becoming important again?
Image: Caliope, the muse of poetry and eloquence, holding the Odyssey (c. 1634). By Simon Vouet and workshop. At the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. This work is in the public domain (wikimedia.org).
Friday Links, October 15, 2021
+ Poet Dana Gioia talks about the strange, dark life of poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.
+ Architect Duncan Stroik talks about how when we design and fund beautiful buildings for the poor, we do them for Christ.
+ Michael O’Brien writes an Open Letter to Fellow Writers and Artists.
+ Fr. Michael Rennier writes about five recent books he wants to read.
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, October 1, 2021
+ “Return to Beauty” Chicago in-person conference with Sorab Ahmari, Liz Lev, and Cameron O’Hearn.
+ Trevor Merrill reviews Portrait of a Mirror: A Novel.
+ Not too late to eavesdrop on a conversation that Mike Aquilina and Fr. Colum Power had last summer about fallen Catholic writers, Jack Kerouac and James Joyce.
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, September 17, 2021
+ Now visible: a Cupid formerly overpainted on a well-known Vermeer.
+ Online seminar on Sigrid Undset’s Vows, with Katy Carl, starts Oct. 4.
+ Three ways Dante’s 700th death anniversary was observed this week.
+ Recent publications by Dappled Things editors and a contributor.
+ A retreat for artists and art lovers, with Dana Gioia and Kevin Turley, Sept 29.
Friday Links, September 10, 2021
Friday Links, September 3, 2021
+ Interview with and a review by Joshua Hren.
+ Congratulations to Katy Carl on her about to be published debut novel.
+ Invitation to a Dappled Things/Collegium Institute collaborative online seminar on a new Sigrid Undset translation.
+ Some helpful pre-reading for the seminar.
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, August 13 2021
Friday Links, August 6, 2021
Friday Links, July 30, 2021
+ More about the age-old question: What qualifies a work of fiction as literary art?
+ On the connection between the Benedictine vision and poetry.
+ Raft of Stars novel read chapter by chapter on Wisconsin Public Radio.
+ New Wiseblood Press essay by Michael D. O’Brien, on the history of mankind’s creative imagination.
+ “Dear Holy Father”: some respectful reactions to Pope Francis’ recent motu proprio.
Friday Links, July 23, 2021
Should Rome decide which art is suitable for churches?
Dante’s youthful handwriting discovered in examples of his student copywork.
Why we need stories, to teach morals without moralizing.
Friday Links, July 16, 2021
Poetry and other publications mostly by present and past Dappled Things staff, and friends.
+ Sarah Cortez’s poem “Green”
+ Rhonda Ortiz’s essay on silence followed by a link to . . .
+ Rhonda Ortiz’s debut novel
+ Word on Fire on liturgical art.