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  1. Ignatius Press Novels

    The “Author of the End of the World”?

    November 16, 2015 3:27 pm Leave a Comment

    The Catholic Weekly, an Australian Catholic newspaper, has released an in-depth interview with Michael D. O’Brien, speaking with him about his views on faith, writing, the end times, and his new novel Elijah in Jerusalem. It’s a fascinating conversation. Here are some excerpts: On the world today: We are now… Read more »

    Tags: author interviews Elijah in Jerusalem Michael O'Brien

  2. John Herreid

    A Story for the Restless: We’ll Never Tell Them

    November 13, 2015 1:22 pm 3 Comments

    There are two very powerful myths most of us at some level buy into, given that they are myths that permeate the modern world. The first is that we can always reinvent ourselves; that we are the sole authors of our destinies, and can remake ourselves into whoever we want… Read more »

    Tags: book review Fiorella de Maria We'll Never Tell Them

  3. Ignatius Press Novels

    Shining a Literary Light

    November 10, 2015 10:59 am Leave a Comment

    Earlier this year, it was announced that the first annual Aquinas Award for Fiction would be awarded to Lucy Beckett for her novel The Leaves are Falling. Ignatius Press Marketing director Anthony Ryan traveled to Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee to accept the award on her behalf. The award was… Read more »

    Tags: Aquinas Award Catholic literature joseph pearce Lucy Beckett The Leaves Are Falling

  4. Petrichor

    November 6, 2015 1:18 pm 4 Comments

    This week it rained. This may not seem like an occurrence worth recording to many of you, but to those of us in this parched region of California, it was momentous. Our puppy, Snowy, had never encountered this before and had to be physically brought out into the yard to… Read more »

    Tags: art appreciation film Ida Elisabeth literature Manalive music The Spirit of the Liturgy

  5. First Chapter: A Cry of Stone

    November 5, 2015 2:43 pm Leave a Comment

    Read the first chapter of the novel A Cry of Stone by Michael O’Brien. If you like what you’re reading, visit the novel’s page to learn more or order! 1 First she was small. She was very, very small, and that was good because no one could see her. Only… Read more »

    Tags: Cry of Stone First Chapter Michael O'Brien

  6. Meryl Kaleida

    Are You Blind?

    November 3, 2015 11:00 am 1 Comment

    I have been on another Dean Koontz kick, and over the last six months I have read 77 Shadow Street, The Husband, The Bad Place, By the Light of the Moon, Watchers, Breathless and most recently Your Heart Belongs to Me. While I enjoyed all of them, I still maintain… Read more »

    Tags: book reviews Dean Koontz reflection reviews suspense Your Heart Belongs to Me

  7. John Herreid

    Spooky Links at a Distance

    October 30, 2015 4:53 pm Leave a Comment

    It’s Halloween weekend, so time for some varied spooky links! First up, “Kill the Moon”, one of the scarier episodes of Doctor Who in the past year (featuring moon spiders!) gets reviewed at First Things, exploring the pro-life implications of the episode. Alexi Sargeant says “The episode proposes something like… Read more »

    Tags: Doctor Who dracula frankenstein Halloween horror links monsters

  8. Ignatius Press Novels

    Short Story: The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

    October 29, 2015 11:42 am Leave a Comment

    “You can’t begin and then stop.  If you begin, you must keep on beginning; that’s the truth.  No rest for the wicked.” Horror is a genre that is often used to illustrate the price of immorality. It has been given a bad name by endless schlocky and titillating modern iterations,… Read more »

    Tags: horror Robert Louis Stevenson short story

  9. Ignatius Press Novels

    We’ll Never Tell Them: The Reviews Are Coming In!

    October 28, 2015 6:28 pm Leave a Comment

    Reviews are coming in for Fiorella De Maria’s latest novel, We’ll Never Tell Them. First up, Francis Phillips reviews the book as well as posing some questions to the author. Ms. Phillips insightfully says that it is “a perfect read for young people debating their future path in life.” Read… Read more »

    Tags: book reviews Fiorella de Maria We'll Never Tell Them

  10. Ignatius Press Novels

    Apocalyptic Fiction

    October 27, 2015 12:16 pm 5 Comments

    Michael D. O’Brien is a best-selling novelist, an insightful social critic, and an acclaimed painter. In 1996 Ignatius Press published his debut novel, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, a powerful story of a Carmelite priest’s confrontation with the Antichrist. Since then, Ignatius has published ten more of his novels. His writing… Read more »

    Tags: author interviews Elijah in Jerusalem Michael O'Brien

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