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We’ve added three novels to the Featured Titles list for October, two classics and one pre-release sneak peek. Ceremony of Innocence by Dorothy Cummings McLean This book’s official release date isn’t until the 13th, but, pssst, it’s available now! Not only is this contemporary fiction, it’s compelling Catholic contemporary… Read more »
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The Goodreads J.R.R. Tolkien discussion group is currently reading Toward the Gleam (October 1 – December 31). Please consider participating. I suspect there will be a lively discussion.
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Okay, so the Feast of Sts. Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel, the archangels, was overridden by the regular Sunday observance this year. But it’s still a wonderful word, and, besides suggesting a baptized culture that takes its holidays from actual holy days, it can have a particularly literary feel for Americans…. Read more »
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The New Catholic Literature Revival, Or Something Like It
by Dan at Ignatius
September 27, 2013 5:33 pm 11 Comments
We tend to be readers here at Ignatius Press. You might imagine. But one of the reasons for starting the Ignatius Press Novels website was the experience of being frustrated readers. It’s easy to get the feeling, especially if you follow mainstream press coverage of book releases and best-seller lists,… Read more »
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We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive reaction to Ignatius Press Novels. Thank you! Now that we’re starting to get on top of our feet, it’s time to give our Novel Thoughts blog here a regular schedule and respond to the wonderful queries we’ve had about joining the conversation. What You’ll… Read more »
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In America‘s recently published interview with Pope Francis, the pontiff talks about a very wide range of subjects. So it’s no surprise that literature comes up as a topic: I have really loved a diverse array of authors. I love very much Dostoevsky and Hölderlin. I remember Hölderlin for that… Read more »
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The Catholic Novelist in a Secular Society
by Piers Paul Read
September 6, 2013 1:46 pm Leave a Comment
An excerpt from Piers Paul Read’s essay “The Catholic Novelist in a Secular Society”, from his book Hell and Other Destinations: The Catholic writer has to acknowledge that today’s non-Catholic reader may be put off his fiction by his Catholicism… Of course such an orthodox Catholic author may have his… Read more »
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Matthew Schmitz writes over at the First Things blog First Thoughts, reflecting on Randy Boyagoda’s article Faith in Fiction: We have to be more creative about where we look for faith in fiction, and in order to do so, we have to expand our tastes beyond the high modernist aesthetic… Read more »
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Many in the world are formed, at least in part, by fiction, and if they don’t experience the Catholic perspective (as distinct from Catholic doctrine, commentary, and apologetics) there will be little or no counterbalance to the secular perspective. Literature from a Catholic perspective can be evangelizing in the sense… Read more »