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  1. Meryl Kaleida

    Ignatius Good Reads

    June 10, 2014 8:00 am Leave a Comment

    Some fellow novel lovers would like to share some of their favorite reads with you! If you are interested in writing a review, please leave a comment! Meaghen Hale suggests A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle   A Wrinkle in Time is one of my best-loved books. Because it is… Read more »

    Tags: A Wrinkle in Time A.J. Cronin C.S. Lewis Catholic literature Evelyn Waugh fans favorites Madeleine L'Engle novels reviews The Citadel The Great Divorce

  2. Dan at Ignatius

    Walker Percy Gets Conferenced

    June 9, 2014 2:41 pm 1 Comment

    They were turning people away over at Rod Dreher’s moderately sized Walker Percy conference in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Which may come as a surprise to anyone who didn’t know there was any sort of Walker Percy conference going on anywhere. Or a Walker Percy walking bourbon tour and crawfish boil,… Read more »

    Tags: American South Catholic culture Catholic literature conferences culture festivals links literature novelists Walker Percy

  3. John Herreid

    The Poison of Cynicism

    June 5, 2014 5:23 pm Leave a Comment

    Lying there, for the few moments before Maes and the infirmarian raised him, he believed. Perhaps it was exhaustion that lowered the barriers pride and custom had long raised in him; perhaps the lucidity and intuitive accuracy of the vision he had beheld. He might never know, fully. But lying… Read more »

    Tags: cynicism Dayspring faith literature

  4. An Interview with Lucy Beckett

    June 4, 2014 11:59 am 2 Comments

    Lucy Beckett is an award-winning novelist living in Yorkshire, England, where she teaches at Ampleforth Abbey. Her novels include The Time Before You Die, A Postcard from the Volcano, and the recently released The Leaves Are Falling. She is also the author of In the Light of Christ: Writings in… Read more »

    Tags: A Postcard from the Volcano author interviews historical fiction Lucy Beckett The Leaves Are Falling writing

  5. Meryl Kaleida

    From Novels to Movies: A Rant

    June 3, 2014 3:36 pm 7 Comments

    Obviously, I am a huge book reader. I am also a huge movie fan. In fact, you can read some of my movie reviews here, here, and here. So, why are there so few good movies that come from books? There are some that have done a pretty decent job… Read more »

    Tags: movies novels reviews

  6. Continuing the Catholic Literary Tradition in London

    June 2, 2014 6:49 am 2 Comments

    You are cordially invited to St. Paul’s Book Shop in London, England this June 7 at 4 PM to hear Fiorella de Maria and Dorothy Cummings McLean read from our Ignatius Press novels. Naturally, you will prefer to be in London already. London is rather far for most Ignatius Press… Read more »

    Tags: Catholic culture Catholic literature England Evelyn Waugh

  7. Dorothy Cummings McLean

    Lost To Translation

    May 28, 2014 7:29 am 1 Comment

    I have been absent from this site because I have not had a chance to read a Catholic novel in quite a while. I spent early May travelling about in Poland, and now I am in the middle of translating a speech I gave there into Polish. Fortunately a Polish… Read more »

    Tags: anti-Catholicism Catholic literature Europe novels poetry Poland translation

  8. Ignatius Press Novels

    Do you have a blog? Ignatius Press is seeking bloggers to help us spread the word about our wonderful new novels! For a limited time, Ignatius Press is offering bloggers a FREE e-book of your choice of three new novels: The Leaves Are Falling by Lucy Beckett, The Rising by… Read more »

    Tags: bloggers ebooks reviews

  9. If you don’t look for it, you won’t find it

    May 23, 2014 1:02 pm 3 Comments

    A while back I participated in a discussion about art. The person who started the discussion was lamenting that in our modern world, good meaningful art was no longer being created. Everything good was in the past and the current world of art was devoid of talent and worth. Someone… Read more »

    Tags: art literature music visual arts

  10. Roger Thomas

    The Rising: A Review

    May 21, 2014 11:45 am Leave a Comment

    Superpowers. We’re fascinated by them.  We buy books (usually comic books) and flock to movies that feature humans with extraordinary strength, or speed, or mobility, or whatever. The image of the super-man, whatever “super” might mean, rivets our imagination. (I discuss this in an earlier post.) To me, our appreciation… Read more »

    Tags: reviews superheroes The Rising

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