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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Nuns, Flying Princesses, and Time Travel
March 28, 2014 11:47 am Leave a Comment
Here’s a roundup of links for your Friday! First up, Dorothy Cummings McLean reviews Rumer Godden’s classic, In This House of Brede: Novels are what we read when we should be reading something else—or are they? Currently I should be reading Henri Nouwen’s “modern spiritual classic,” The Way of the… Read more »
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Books and Grounded Transcendence
March 27, 2014 11:46 am 5 Comments
On one of my shelves at home I have a collection of old books. There’s a 1930s edition of Kristin Lavransdatter, a first edition of G.K. Chesterton’s autobiography, a crumbling copy of Archy and Mehitabel. But not all of them are great. The oldest is a history text from the… Read more »
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It’s Okay NOT to Like Something
February 21, 2014 10:26 am 6 Comments
“He offended me with his terrible taste!” —Barry in the film High Fidelity You probably know the scenario. Somebody sent you a link to an upcoming movie or TV series. “We NEED to support projects like this!” Or somebody passed along a Catholic novel to you. “We need to support… Read more »
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A quote from an insanitary novel
February 10, 2014 4:07 pm Leave a Comment
“Nothing is a masterpiece—a real masterpiece—till it’s about two hundred years old… Look at Christianity. Just a lot of floating seeds to start with, all sorts of seeds. It was a long time before one of them grew into a tree big enough to kill the rest and keep the… Read more »
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Starting the Habit: Children and Reading
February 5, 2014 11:36 am 7 Comments
Last night we escaped the clutches of giant spiders in Mirkwood. My kids, aged six, five, and three, all began to run around the room shouting about spiders and elves. I shut our copy of The Hobbit and set it back on the shelf for next time. Since the kids… Read more »
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Memory and Sensation: Feeding the Imagination
December 16, 2013 10:35 am Leave a Comment
“Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that most of mankind must regard as remote from each other; the idea of a baby and the idea of unknown strength… Read more »
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Dana Gioia on “The Catholic Writer Today”
December 6, 2013 6:35 pm 2 Comments
First Things has a bracing, challenging, and inspiring new article by Catholic poet Dana Gioia on the topic of “The Catholic Writer Today”. Here’s a couple of excerpts: The collapse of Catholic literary life reflects a larger crisis of confidence in the Church that touches on all aspects of religious,… Read more »
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J.F. Powers and the Catholic Subculture
December 2, 2013 2:23 pm 6 Comments
Writing in Catholic World Report, Russell Shaw has a lament for the now largely vanished Catholic subculture that once permeated most American cities. He says that the demise of this culture has brought about the demise of a certain type of Catholic writer, using the novelist and short story writer… Read more »
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Journeying through Space and Time with the Legacy of C.S. Lewis
November 22, 2013 2:32 pm 2 Comments
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis. It’s difficult to gauge exactly how different the world of fantasy and science fiction would be without his influence (or the influence of his friend J.R.R. Tolkien). We’ve gathered a number of links that explore different facets of his… Read more »
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Hammer, Paint, Coffee, and Computer: Cover Design in a Digital World
October 18, 2013 11:59 am 1 Comment
As a graphic designer, it’s all too tempting to simply rely solely on Photoshop and the digital effects that it can provide. The problem is: everything starts looking the same. Check out your local bookstore’s collection of recent novels, especially genre fiction, and you’ll see what seems like the same… Read more »