Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
on The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Cormac McCarthy, John Cuddeback, a poem from James Joyce, a story by Michael F. Flynn, summer reading series on the Catholic Imagination with The Hank Center
About that Padre Pio film…
As Dappled Things readers know, one age-old dilemma for artists is the line between portraying evil and being complicit in it.
Friday Links
with Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin, Aarik Danielsen in Fathom, Jessica Hooten Wilson in Church Life Journal, Aaron Weinacht reviews Eugene Vodolazkin’s A History of the Island , B.D. McClay,, JMW on Zena Hitz, Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs
Murder by Any Other Name
Jeffrey Wald reflects on death with dignity. Fiction doesn’t always connect to reality and words can be used for good or ill.
Friday Links
with Clare Coffey in Plough, First Things Foundation interview with Eugene Vodolazkin, Rachel Lu in America Magazine, Daniel McInerny: On Keeping Yourself Unfit for the Modern World, and Katy Carl
We still have no Catholic fiction?
Or, maybe there’s great Catholic fiction all around if we only have eyes to see. Here are the beginnings of a fantastic reading list from our managing editor, Katy Carl.
Our 2022 J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction Winners!
Dappled Things is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction.
Writing through sorrow
“I grabbed a blank journal and I began to write. I had always loved to write but had rarely found the time in recent years. Suddenly it seemed I could do nothing else.”
The miracle of Sister Wilhelmina
When it comes to Catholicism and Catholic culture, there are miracles to be found in all manner of places. The story of one author’s experience in Gower, Missouri.
Friday Links
Kelsey Wicks on Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, On Guantanamo Bay by Jennifer Bryson, “Exit Stage Right”: Maria Illich in Ekstasis Magazine, Michael Breidenbach in Church Life Journal, Gary Saul Morson on The Gulag Archipelago
The art of losing
On Elizabeth Bishop’s subtle art that she can’t quite seem to believe herself even though she wrote it; “Lose something every day. Accept the fluster / of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. / The art of losing isn’t hard to master.”
Friday Links
with Seth Wieck, Jess Sweeney, and A sonnet for Ascension Day from Malcolm Guite
Join Dappled Things as an Associate Editor!
We are looking to add three new editors. Come work with us!
The benefits of leaving Ur
Thinking through the difficult question of whether to change parishes.
Friday Links
with Nick Ripatrazone, Stephen Schmalhofer at First Things , Joshua P. Hochschild on Caryll Houselander, Chris Beha, Ron Hansen, and Greg Wolfe at New York Encounter 2023, An interview with Benjamin Myers
The things we do for love
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly
Friday Links
with Collegium Institute, James Matthew Wilson, Christian Wiman & Gwendolyn Brooks, Tod Warner and Michael Stevens, Paul Pastor and Janille Stephens
Abiquiu
Amy Welborn on the mystery of doorways.
Confessing my Childhood: Carlos Eire’s Waiting for Snow in Havana
Join Collegium Institute and Dappled Things: A Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith for our online Global Catholic Literature Seminar on Carlos Eire’s Waiting for Snow in Havana.
Friday Links
with Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt in Plough; a new book from Plough: The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins; Anthony Esolen: Spring; and Megan Hunter-Kilmer on Servant of God Claire de Castelbajac