Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Evangeliaries
A book review of Evangeliaries: Poems by Philip C. Kolin.
The wary monk of Westmalle
When it comes to living with monks, one author gets more than he bargained for
Friday Links
The Machine Sessions: Caroline Ross; Carmelite Quotes; Learning to Love Someone Besides Yourself: A Reading of Augustine’s Confessions; Who Forgot About Beauty? And Why?; Charles Camosy: We’ve seen ‘designer babies’ before; Talk to Me In Long Lines: A Journal of ("Long) Narrative Verse and Dramatic Monologues; Buc-ee’s and The Infinite American Spirit
The humility of Odysseus
Somewhat counter-culturally for the time, Odysseus is the story of a man bent groundward, burying his pride alongside his winnowing fan.
Friday Links
Singing the Counter-Revolution: Ryan Wilson Interviews EPB; Lu’ella D’Amico:The Sound of Accompaniment: Brian Wilson, Catholicism, and the Spiritual Life of Boys; Caught Up in the Drift; Chris Childers: Birthdays, Roman and Otherwise; Matthew Milliner: Julian for Everyone
How the five-paragraph essay fails students
Oso Guardiola meditates on the foibles inherent in the 5-paragraph essay with an argument that, unfortunately, is not a 5-paragraph essay.
Friday Links
On writing today
The motivations to write are mysterious. Christopher Mari argues that we write, in part, because no one is ever alone.
Friday Links
Gary Saul Morton: A Question of Purpose: On Translating Russian Literature; The Heroism of Homeric Women; Paul Willis: Greetings on a Morning Walk; Alfred Nicol’s Frost Farm Conference Keynote; A Life in Fiction: John Wilson on the books that stick with us; “The Tear” by Richard Crashaw
An open letter to Pope Leo XIV
…So, you see, I had an opinion of you 30 minutes after you were elected. It was this: “The Pope,” I said to my students first and then to myself many times in the following days, “has probably been to White Castle.”
Friday Links
M.I. Devine on poetry and unexploded bombs; Meeting David Jones at the laundromat; Jeffrey Bilbo: What Problem Does ChatGPT Solve?; Hermetic Angelology: Ryan Wilson on Versecraft; The Nile Flows into the Shannon
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog
A deeper look at the Ten Commandments and how Kieslowski introduced the world to prestige television
Friday Links
In memory of Jane Greer
A contrarian in the age of AI
Christopher Mari is cranky about AI (and we’re fine with that)
Friday Links
Austin Allen on Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse; A.M. Juster asks: Can Americans Love Poetry Again?; Luella D’Amico on the The Catholic Morning Show; Malcolm Guite: In Defense of Pint and Pipe; Eleanor Parker on Artificial Inspiration
A summer love affair with home
An impassioned defense of those who dislike travel
The soul of a finance bro
Anna Bruno on her realization that even a finance bro has an inner life.
Friday Links
Joshua Hren on Joseph Conrad; Heaven on Earth by Thomas Traherne; The Whole In One: An Interview with James Matthew Wilson; The Nine Best Movies on the Creative Life; The Architecture of Transformative Experience
I am not a paintbrush
Artist Daniel Mitsui reflects on Art and Generative AI
Enthusiasm
Mike Schramm argues that cringe culture is dead.