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The Urgency of this Present Moment: Learning from C.S. Lewis and Michael D. O’Brien
December 30, 2015 1:27 pm 2 Comments
Rev. John Morrison is an Episcopal priest living in Brightwaters, New York. A member of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, he is a retired English teacher with degrees from Darthmouth, Hofstra, SUNY Stony Brook, and the George Mercer School of Theology. He has presented a number of papers… Read more »
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Top posts! Top sellers! An Ignatius Press Novels Review of 2015
December 23, 2015 2:00 pm Leave a Comment
2015 is almost over, and it’s time to look back over the past year in novels and in posts here at the Novel Thoughts blog. First off, here’s a list of the top-selling novels from the year: Elijah in Jerusalem: The long-awaited sequel to Father Elijah takes the top spot… Read more »
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The Shop of Ghosts
December 15, 2015 6:33 pm 1 Comment
Nearly all the best and most precious things in the universe you can get for a halfpenny. I make an exception, of course, of the sun, the moon, the earth, people, stars, thunderstorms, and such trifles. You can get them for nothing. Also I make an exception of another thing,… Read more »
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Reading and Community
November 23, 2015 5:49 pm 3 Comments
The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, has a profile of the Misfits, a group of men who get together to read and discuss works of literature: On a soggy November evening, 14 Catholic men sloshed their way to a taproom in Stillwater, shook off… Read more »
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The “Author of the End of the World”?
November 16, 2015 3:27 pm Leave a Comment
The Catholic Weekly, an Australian Catholic newspaper, has released an in-depth interview with Michael D. O’Brien, speaking with him about his views on faith, writing, the end times, and his new novel Elijah in Jerusalem. It’s a fascinating conversation. Here are some excerpts: On the world today: We are now… Read more »
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Shining a Literary Light
November 10, 2015 10:59 am Leave a Comment
Earlier this year, it was announced that the first annual Aquinas Award for Fiction would be awarded to Lucy Beckett for her novel The Leaves are Falling. Ignatius Press Marketing director Anthony Ryan traveled to Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee to accept the award on her behalf. The award was… Read more »
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First Chapter: A Cry of Stone
November 5, 2015 2:43 pm Leave a Comment
Read the first chapter of the novel A Cry of Stone by Michael O’Brien. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! 1 First she was small. She was very, very small, and that was good because no one could see her. Only… Read more »
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Short Story: The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
October 29, 2015 11:42 am Leave a Comment
“You can’t begin and then stop. If you begin, you must keep on beginning; that’s the truth. No rest for the wicked.” Horror is a genre that is often used to illustrate the price of immorality. It has been given a bad name by endless schlocky and titillating modern iterations,… Read more »
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We’ll Never Tell Them: The Reviews Are Coming In!
October 28, 2015 6:28 pm Leave a Comment
Reviews are coming in for Fiorella De Maria’s latest novel, We’ll Never Tell Them. First up, Francis Phillips reviews the book as well as posing some questions to the author. Ms. Phillips insightfully says that it is “a perfect read for young people debating their future path in life.” Read… Read more »
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Apocalyptic Fiction
October 27, 2015 12:16 pm 5 Comments
Michael D. O’Brien is a best-selling novelist, an insightful social critic, and an acclaimed painter. In 1996 Ignatius Press published his debut novel, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, a powerful story of a Carmelite priest’s confrontation with the Antichrist. Since then, Ignatius has published ten more of his novels. His writing… Read more »