John Herreid
John Herreid is catalog manager at Ignatius Press. In addition to catalogs and ads, he has also worked on the cover design for many Ignatius Press books and DVDs. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four children.
Posts from this author at the Novel Thoughts blog.
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The Divine Physician and the Doctor
October 1, 2015 10:35 am 5 Comments
“…for when I am weak, then I am strong.” —2 Corinthians 12:10 He’s back. My favorite recent incarnation of the alien Time Lord known as the Doctor arrived again this month, sonic screwdriver (or sunglasses) at the ready. Peter Capaldi’s portrayal of the Doctor is prickly, intelligent, standoffish, and alien… Read more »
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Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth
September 18, 2015 1:53 pm 4 Comments
One of the most painful things in art is realism. Grotesquerie, exaggeration, wish fulfillment, romance: all of these allow a generalization of human behavior that may portray some truth, but they don’t cut to the bone in the same way that a stark portrayal of real, honest, human behavior does…. Read more »
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Reading On a BART Train
September 10, 2015 11:15 pm Leave a Comment
I recently found out that I am a “super commuter”, a term which sounds as if it should be referring to a superhero with the power to clear up traffic jams or remove odors from a bus or to perform some other such unrealistic miracle. However, it just means someone… Read more »
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“Mr. Chesterton is a grand man. Mr. Chesterton is a very fat man.”
September 3, 2015 6:01 pm 1 Comment
From an eccentric book I came across online, The Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday, comes this vivid short portrait of G.K. Chesterton as a young man. Holliday, an American writer, decided to visit England and wrote to a number of authors to arrange meetings. Here is his account of… Read more »
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“The road to Auschwitz isn’t so long…”
August 3, 2015 12:20 pm 1 Comment
From time to time people will ask me if there are any specific movies that Ignatius Press has released on DVD that I really think highly of. There are several, but there’s one of them in particular which came to mind in these past few weeks. It’s a chilling German… Read more »
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The Wound that Heals
July 31, 2015 7:15 pm 3 Comments
The other day my six-year-old daughter said something very striking. I had asked my three children what kind of music they would like to listen to. She told me that she didn’t want to listen to classical right now, and requested pop music instead. “Why?” “Because classic music is so… Read more »
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Friday Links
July 24, 2015 6:34 pm Leave a Comment
Another week is over and it’s off to the weekend we go! Here’s a number of links that caught my eye this week: Holly Ordway reviews the new book on the Inklings, The Fellowship, for Catholic World Report. This book keeps popping up in my news feed—I really need to… Read more »
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The Pope and the Animator
July 23, 2015 11:06 am 9 Comments
“The aesthetic of the Pope’s reflections (on the tension between man and nature, the tendency of man to use technology to dominate others and the environment, and the ideal of an integral ecology) remind me of the films of Hayao Miyazaki. I think Miyazaki explores similar themes, although from a… Read more »
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Piers Paul Read on writing fiction, the Catholic novel today, and more!
July 20, 2015 2:52 pm 1 Comment
Karl Schmude at The University Bookman has a new interview with Piers Paul Read, author of The Death of a Pope (and many other novels). Read is characteristically thoughtful and insightful in his comments about working as a writer, handling Catholic themes in contemporary literature, the hostility of modern culture… Read more »
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Star Wars, Star Trek, Inklings, Pixar, Sigrid Undset, and more
July 10, 2015 4:48 pm 1 Comment
Next week my family heads out for a little vacation, so I’ll leave you readers with some links to enjoy. First, at the Word on Fire blog Daniel Stewart wades into the Star Wars vs Star Trek argument: As I considered the “Star Wars vs. Star Trek” question again, I… Read more »