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Sigrid Undset and the Hard Case of Ida Elisabeth
by John Herreid
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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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.”
by John Herreid
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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First Chapter: We’ll Never Tell Them
by Ignatius Press Novels
August 28, 2015 6:02 pm Leave a Comment
Read the first chapters of the novel We’ll Never Tell Them by Fiorella de Maria. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! PROLOGUE She had been to this place before. That was why, in her darkest hour, Kristjana had returned; she remembered… Read more »
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More than a few have told me to let go of the subjects of Atticus Finch, Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. The books are published. It’s history now. Atticus Finch is a fictional character. And who cares? I care because this involves an artist… Read more »
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The Vale of Rest, a painting by John Everett Millais, 1858-59 No quality in art and fiction writing is more elusive and perplexing than sincerity. No cemetery is quieter than one where nuns lie buried. No school memories are richer or more compelling than those the Sisters left for… Read more »
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Fiorella De Maria is a novelist as well as an advocate for pro-life causes. Her novels include Poor Banished Children, Do No Harm, and her latest, We’ll Never Tell Them. She will be speaking in San Francisco later this month at the annual conference of the California Association Natural Family… Read more »
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Fiorella De Maria is speaking in California!
by Ignatius Press Novels
August 5, 2015 5:05 pm 2 Comments
Ignatius Press author Fiorella De Maria Nash will be speaking in Northern California later this month! In addition to her immense talent as a writer for fiction, Fiorella Nash is also an eloquent advocate of the Church’s teaching on sexuality and is a powerful speaker on pro-life issues. Here is… Read more »
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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 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 »