Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Stains on the Altar Cloth
"From my vantage point behind the priest, I cannot help but notice the humanity of those hands... As those hands hold aloft the sacred host, I can’t help but notice the arthritic knuckles and smudges of ink left from signing checks and thank you notes. I shouldn’t be looking at his hands. I should keep my eyes on Jesus. But my attention, too, is weak and ordinary."
Friday Links
Shemaiah Gonzalez; Dana Gioia on Becoming a Catholic Writer; Daylight Moon by Daniel Patrick Sheehan; Matt Kirby on the WCU poetry conference; George Hebert; Steven Delay on Contemplation; Fr. Michael on John Keats’ epitaph
How the West Chester University Poetry Conference saved American verse
and became the prototype for the Catholic Imagination Conference
Autumn in New England
New Englander Angela Beatrice recommends three books for autumn.
Friday Links
Girlatee by A. M. Juster; An appreciation from Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen on Dracula; Medieval roundup from Art & Theology; A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide; “love keeps the world” – a poem by John McMeans
Bequeathed to air
On fame and immortality in Dante
Friday Links
Phil Klay on Faith beyond the culture wars; Nadya Williams on Home Libraries; Gregory Hillis: A Burial at Gethsemani; Money and the Roots of Moral Evil; Catholic Culture Podcast with A.M. Juster; Carlos Eire on The Trouble with Levitation and Bilocation; Boris Dralyuk on Sergei Bongart Pays His Respects at Forest Lawn
Not-So-Sweet Surrender
Wrestling with the concept of surrender with assistance from John Denver.
Friday Links
Cluny Journal; Joshua Hren on Houellebecq’s Annihilation; Patricia Snow on Taylor Swift; Rhonda Ortiz: Mama Needs a Hysterectomy; Echolocations: Thoughts on Poems by A.E Stallings; Jason Guriel: on Kay Ryan
Mama Needs a Hysterectomy
Rhonda Ortiz on women’s health, mental illness, and divine pedagogy.
On languor
Daniel Fitzpatrick discusses an under-examined theme in Brideshead Revisited - the languor. What are the conditions by which we might rediscover ourselves and come into to true rest and repose?
Friday Links
Stephanie Howe Sullivan on The O is in the Air; Halloween issue: New Verse Review; Denise Trull on “A Quirky Little Book”; The Dark Side of Jane Austen with Julia Yost and Mark Bauerlein; Andrew Tolkmith on Kris Kristofferson
Friday Links
The 2024 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction; An Interview with DT’s Editor-in-Chief Rhonda Ortiz; James R. Wood on The Autonomy Trap; Marcel Proust’s View from the Prosecutor’s Side; God’s Little Flowers by Lindsay Schlegel; Culture of Life Poetry Award from Let Go the Goat
The 2024 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction
The 2024 J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction is Now Open!
Moral development in the age of social media
It's not enough to only be reading the great books
Friday Links
Catholic Culture Podcast with Ryan Wilson; Political Lessons From the Life of Blessed Emperor Karl; The Borough: A Journal of Poetry; Form and Freedom from Plough; Dennis Wilson Wise on “Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited”; Valerie Stivers on Sally Rooney’s Crypto-Christian Love
Empty the bottle
Peter Bast is determined to drink life down to the very last drop even if it means giving all he has away and filling the hollowed out shell of his past self with wine.
Friday Links
with Four Loves at the Houston Ballet; Sam Kahn: “We are in a Writing Renaissance”; Interviews with James Matthew Wilson, Marly Youmans, & Paul Pastor; Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award; Jackson Arn on “The Anguish of Looking at a Monet”
Setting Prisoners Free
The power of the arts in prison ministry in rural Texas: an interview with Father Jim
Friday Links
Micah Mattix with The Blackbird + Blue Walls: A Double Book Launch; James Earl Jones, dead at 93; Victoria Moul on George Herbert; 17 Novels You Need to Read This Fall; Elijah Blumov Interviews Timothy Steele