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Our yearly Ignatius Press Lenten sale has begun, and this year two novels are included as well as a number of other books on literary topics! These books (hardcopy only) are on sale for only $3.00 each until April 19, 2014. Also available are two audio books by Chesterton for… Read more »
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First the Fire, then the Spark: Autobiography and Fiction
by James Casper
February 13, 2014 12:54 pm Leave a Comment
Readers of fiction involving ordinary people, everyday life, and easily imagined predicaments, often suspect such stories must be autobiographical. Sometimes this is a correct assumption, as in the case of Charles Dickens’ classic David Copperfield, and often it is not, as in the case of another classic, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson… Read more »
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Given the opportunity, I will say to almost anyone that I think novelists take themselves far too seriously, and for that matter, some even expect to be regarded with awe. The creative engine, though a mighty machine, is easily thrown into reverse. I do not, by the way, exclude myself… Read more »
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Harry Sylvester’s “Novel of Conversion”
by Ignatius Press Novels
January 22, 2014 11:39 am Leave a Comment
Literary reputations are delicate things. An author who today is touted as the next Faulkner or Dickens can be completely forgotten in only a few years, while others rise from utter obscurity. Harry Sylvester, unfortunately, followed the first of these trajectories. He was hugely popular in the 1940s, when knowledgeable… Read more »