-
Read the first chapter of the novel Everywhere in Chains by James Casper. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! 1 The Mouse in the Wall Lake Superior is the largest, deepest, and coldest of the five Great Lakes. The other four… Read more »
-
Graham Greene, often mentioned in these pages, had a troubled and chaotic relationship with the Catholic faith to which he converted the year before his marriage, so much so that his motives for conversion have even been questioned. At the same time, more than any writer of his day, he… Read more »
-
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 »
-
“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 »
-
Those who have read T.M. Doran‘s novel Terrapin know that he is inspired by the work of Harper Lee. Doran is troubled by the newly released novel by Harper Lee. As he wrote previously in Catholic World Report, “Isn’t this decision to publish a sequel to Mockingbird—though Watchman is said… Read more »
-
Piers Paul Read on writing fiction, the Catholic novel today, and more!
by John Herreid
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 »
-
Star Wars, Star Trek, Inklings, Pixar, Sigrid Undset, and more
by John Herreid
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 »
-
Read the first chapters of the novel Poor Banished Children by Fiorella de Maria. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! Dreams of the Dead Death has come for me again. The others are already lost. I heard their screams as I… Read more »
-
In the summer of 1995, my wife and I––both Evangelical Protestants at the time–-took a trip with the Catholic novelist Walker Percy. He had died in 1990, but his presence was very much evident in Signposts In A Strange Land (Noonday Press, 1991, 1992), a posthumous collection of essays and… Read more »
-
The encyclical is out. Laudato Si’ has had perhaps the most breathless build-up of any Church document in the past few decades. Having had the chance to read and reflect upon it, and given that I’m often thinking about writing and art, one aspect of the encyclical which struck home… Read more »