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  1. James Casper

    The Novelist: a Morning Meditation

    January 29, 2014 3:23 pm 1 Comment

    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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  2. Ignatius Press Novels

    An Interview with Fiorella De Maria

    December 19, 2013 11:08 am Leave a Comment

    Fiorella De Maria is the author of four novels, including two published by Ignatius Press: Do No Harm and Poor Banished Children. Her other novels are The Cassandra Curse and Father William’s Daughter. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in such publications as Dappled Things. She and her family… Read more »

    Tags: author interviews Catholic literature Evelyn Waugh Fiorella de Maria writing

  3. John Herreid

    J.F. Powers and the Catholic Subculture

    December 2, 2013 2:23 pm 6 Comments

    Writing in Catholic World Report, Russell Shaw has a lament for the now largely vanished Catholic subculture that once permeated most American cities. He says that the demise of this culture has brought about the demise of a certain type of Catholic writer, using the novelist and short story writer… Read more »

    Tags: Catholic culture Catholic literature J.F. Powers Russell Shaw writing

  4. Piers Paul Read

    The Catholic Novelist in a Secular Society

    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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