Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
with Dana Gioia on opera & bonus podcast; Haley Stewart on fairy tales; Joshua Hren with a double review of 2 books on Joyce; TIB on lockdown nostalgia; Brian Kaller on life in rural Ireland
The Word Made Fresh
Abram Van Engen’s new book invites everyone to read poetry for spiritual benefit.
An answer to Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft began his seminal 1927 essay, “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” with these words: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” I disagree, and here’s why.
Friday Links
with Micah Mattix on books to navigate the swells of verse; Steven Knepper on Les Murray; Elijah Blumov hosts George David Clark, Ryan Wilson, and Matthew Buckley Smith; Joshua Hren on The genius of James Joyce; The odd couple: Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; ESU Formal Verse Contest
The Hollow Inch
Keep your psychics and sages, your self-help gurus and psychologists. Set the well-meaning priests, rabbis and imams on the side. Thank your best friend and your sweetheart for their kind words. But the bottom line is that the best advice you can or ever will receive is from your mother.
Friday Links
Annual Summer Literary Series at UST; Rhonda Ortiz interviews Fiorella De Maria; Endangered Mexican Salamander Being Captive Bred By Nuns; Matthew Milliner interviews Amanda Iglesias; Tom Hiddleston Recites “When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats
Forsaken silence, sacred song
Finding God in the melody of Godland
Friday Links
“Glorify His All-Loving Heart”: Winners of the Sacred Heart Art Competition
After extensive review of the numerous entries that were submitted, the judges have selected three prize winners and several honorable mentions.
What we hope to pass on
What’s a father to do when his son asks for a reading list of favorite books? How to choose?
Friday Links
with Eric Cyr; Christian Wiman at The Trinity Forum; The Jeweler’s Shop presented by ArtHouse2B; Valuing the Craft of Beautiful Homemaking; Sarah Spivey wins the Frost Farm Prize; B. D. McClay on Persuasion
The goodness of the strange
When we encounter the strange, when it grabs our attention, we ought to pursue it to its source.
Friday Links
What is a museum
On the conflicted experience of so much overwhelming stuff in one space, the crowds, and the objects taken and displayed far from their original context. Is museum-going worth it?
Friday Links
with A. M. Juster reviews Peter Vertacnik’s new book; Fr. Damian Ference on Wildcat; Cynthia Haven on Rembrandt; In Loving Memory of Kaye Park Hinckley; Kristin Prugh’s Dairy of a Thinking Mother; Wiseblood Books: Open Submission period for fiction
Just a couple of biopunks
How mainstream Biopunk culture such as Frankenstein and Jurassic Park changed the public perception of biotechnology.
Friday Links
Dorian Speed reviews Wildcat; The smell of old books; Mike Mastromatteo on James Matthew Wilson’s Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds ; Michael Ford on Gerard Garrigan; Jennifer Newsome Martin on The Monster and the Monstrance
A review of Wildcat - the Flannery O’Connor biopic
Dorian Speed was hoping to see ducklings on a plane!
Our 2023 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction Winners!
A grain of stupidity
On the folly of philosophy and art