Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Tradition is the guardian of beauty
What are the conditions for creativity and beauty? Father Michael Rennier thinks that, perhaps, we have it all wrong.
Friday Links
‘Everything Beautiful Comes From and Speaks of God,’ Says French Artist; James Matthew Wilson on the Catholic Culture Podcast; The Moral Authority of a Body; B.D. McClay: The Soul Should Not Be Handled; And Announcing the J.F Powers Short Fiction Contest Shortlist
Announcing the 2024 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction Finalists
A little incarnation
On this feast of the Annunciation, Jessica Lynne Henkle reminds us of the maternal instinct that creates little incarnations of beauty in all sorts of forms.
Friday Links
Ekphrastic Sacred Poetry Contest from Catholic Literary Arts; Christopher Scalia on“Mending Wall”; To Save Our Cities, Let’s Go to the Movies by Jon Bishop; Matthew Milliner: Mary Underground; WSJ reviews some children’s books; Mark Bauerlein & Cheryl Hughes on Fulton Sheen; Cassandra Nelson & Andrew Klavan on A Theology of Fiction
Artificial Attention
In the age of AI, attention is more valuable than ever, which is why it’s a perfect Lenten sacrifice.
Saint Patrick’s Day Links
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! An extra set of links for the day that’s in it. Slaínte!
Friday Links
From St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to the Sisters of Life: A Legacy of Grace, Unbroken; Claudel's Poetics: A Cosmic Word of Praise w/ Dr Thomas Pfau; Thomist Poets Reading Series with Zina Gomez-Liss; Donal Ryan Wins An Post Irish Book of the Year; “Mo Mhíle Stór” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill translated by Heaney
The Failed Poet’s Department
Sister Maria goes through the 5 stages of writing grief and… forgives Dappled Things.
Friday Links
Ayako Sono, Novelist Who Infused Works with Christian Ethics, Dies at 93; Michael Lucchese on T. S. Eliot and the Need for Lent; Auden’s Island: The poet in the postwar era by Alan Jacobs; David Perell and Dana Gioia in conversation; Heidie Sensema: Smash the Small Cosmos
Grapes on the road
McCarthy, Steinbeck, and each lifetime as a personal apocalypse
Meditations in a time of Zillow
All the thoughts that come with selling a family home, because old houses and forgotten places are “not nothing.”
Friday Links
Literary Matters; Adam Plunkett on Robert Frost & Artistic Ethos; John Wilson review: Invisible Helix: A Detective Galileo Novel by Keigo Higashino; Flannery at 100 in Iowa City; A Mardis Gras Murder Mystery in Verse: Sonnez Les Matines; An Evening of Poetry and Fiction with Sally Thomas
Spiritual Electric Shock Therapy
Why today’s writers need G. K. Chesterton
Friday Links
with Rhonda Ortiz, Ross Douthat, Eric Cyr on Joe Pug, Kathryn Jean Lopez, & Antigone Journal
The horn and the harmonium
Joshua Hren’s novel is a book for the moment in which America now finds itself.
Friday Links
Rand Richards Cooper on The Shredder’s Trade; God’s Little Flowers by Lindsay Schlegel; Shemaiah Gonzalez on “Building a vibrant Catholic culture through artistic virtues”; The Dean Abbott Podcast with Jane Greer; Missed Connections: Jessica Swoboda on Rachel Cusk’s Parade
Losing to win
How the “long defeat” shaped the writing of Walker Percy.
Friday Links
“Uses of Water” by A.M. Juster; Kazuo Robinson reviews Ali Smith’s Gliff; Constellation of Genius: Miłosz, Camus, Einstein, and Weil by Cynthia L. Haven; five days of flames by Avedis Maljanian; How Should Catholics Respond to the Immigration Crisis?
Hell is (no) other people
The time for taking ideas like extreme individualism and solipsism is past