Catholic Fiction

The international conference, Reason, Fiction and Faith, to be held in Rome, 20-22 April 2009, forms part of the biennial “Poetics and Christianity Project” series at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
The Conference will provide an occasion for scholars, academics and artists to reflect not only on Flannery O’Connor and her work but also on the issues that both raise, [...]

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by Ron Hansen
Our longtime blog-friend Rae Stabosz, a Pauline Cooperator who has been instrumental in getting works of Catholic imagination (including Idylls Press books) into the bookstores run by the Pauline Sisters (see the post), has also been joining us in praying for a new Catholic literary revival. It seems that one of the fruits [...]

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New and Collected Stories
by Tobias Wolff
reviewed by John Murphy
Our Story Begins collects new and older short-stories by Tobias Wolff, one of America’s acknowledged masters of the genre. Wolff-hounds will recognize canonical works like “Hunters in the Snow,” “Bullet in the Brain,” and “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” short-form masterpieces that have long-since established Wolff’s reputation [...]

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by John Murphy
Having just read a collection of masterful short-stories by Tobias Wolff, the issue of what makes storytelling such an intrinsic, necessary part of the human condition has been at the forefront of my mind. An article in the most recent issue of Scientific American approaches this age-old question from a left-brained perspective…
Read the rest of John’s piece [...]

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