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Catholic novel wins Readers Favorite award

Gerard Webster’s novel IN-SIGHT, which was reviewed here recently on Catholic Fiction, has won an award in the “Fiction – Suspense” category for the 2009 Readers Favorite Awards.  Visit the Readers Favorite site and click on the 2009 Readers Favorite Winners “Fiction-Suspense” link..  This is a secular web-site... [Read more of this review]

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“Solzhenitsyn was my father”

Marking the publication of the first “uncensored” edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s classic In the First Circle, The London Times has published a noteworthy interview with the author’s son, pianist and conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn, who was raised in the U.S. and still makes Manhattan his home. The interview is remarkable for... [Read more of this review]

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Faith Noir: On Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel

Jessica Sequeira has published an article in The Harvard Advocate on Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. Or, rather, on the alleged death of the Catholic Novel. While she raises some interesting points, her eulogistic pessimism, which seems largely based on the common secular assumption that Catholicism holds little power or certainty anymore, even... [Read more of this review]

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Recalling Bernanos

Msgr. David O Liptak, executive editor of The Catholic Transcript, has a lovely little article online about Georges Bernanos and his masterpiece, Diary of a Country Priest. (See Rachel Murphy’s review of the book here.) Here is a quote from the article: Bernanos’s masterpiece is required reading in the course I teach on “Priesthood, Eucharist... [Read more of this review]

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Communication, Consecration and the Catholic Novel by Glenn Statile

I just found, online, a copy of an article on theology, philosophy and the Catholic novel by Prof. Glenn Statile, a member of the Philosophy faculty  of St. John’s University in Queens, NY, and a frequent contributor to the excellent Metanexus Insitute publication, The Global Spiral. The article, “Communication, Consecration and the Catholic... [Read more of this review]

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Who is an American Black, Catholic or Jewish Writer?

I’d like to share with my fellow readers and students of Catholic fiction an article I just bumped into online on the website of the American Studies Center at Nanzan University in Japan. Written by David R. Mayer of Nanzan University, the article is entitled, “Who is an American Black, Catholic or Jewish Writer?” and it is available... [Read more of this review]

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Debra Murphy on the fiction of Ian McEwan

Debra Murphy, CatholicFiction.net editor, has written an article on the fiction of English novelist Ian McEwan. First published last winter in Second Spring Journal, Debra’s article, “A Christian looks at the fiction of Ian McEwan”, is now available online at CatholicExchange. Here’s how the article begins: Two things need to... [Read more of this review]

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Robert E. Lauder on the Catholic Fiction of Alice McDermott

Rev. Robert E. Lauder has an article in the recent edition of America magazine on the fiction of Alice McDermott, comparing her novels to those of other famous Catholic novelists such as Graham Greene, and identifying her as what he calls a “Transcendental Thomist.” Here’s an excerpt: Over the last seventeen years, as the coordinator... [Read more of this review]

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Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature

Wired has published a short but useful list of what writer Bruce Sterling regards as digital-age difficulties facing “literature” as we have known it these last few centuries. The fact that, “wired” (relatively speaking) as I am, I am unable to follow a couple of his examples may be proof enough of the problem us literary types... [Read more of this review]

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The Atlantic Monthly on “Flannery”

Joseph O’Neill, whose novel Netherland is this year’s recipient of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award, has written a piece on Flannery O’Connor for the recent issue of The Atlantic Monthly (using Brad Gooch’s biography, Flannery: A Life, as the occasion). O’Neill describes O’Connor’s writing as “unfairly”... [Read more of this review]

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