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Marilynne Robinson, Christian novelist and author of the beautiful (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) novel Gilead has come out with a new book, non-fiction this time, entitled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self. In it, according to this article in Publishers Weekly, Robinson writes on the relationship between science [...]
Congratulations to CatholicFiction.net author and reviewer Ellen Gable Hrkach for being awarded the Gold Medal (First Prize) in the 2010 Independent Publishers awards for her novel, In Name Only. (Read our recent review here.) Way to go, Ellen! Congratulations are also in order for CatholicFiction.net author and reviewer Christine Sunderland,whose novel Offerings won the Ippy [...]
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 of book reviews, and it’s great to [...]
Readers (and writers) of Catholic fiction, take note: I received a surprising and welcome announcement from Commonweal magazine in my email Inbox this morning: Commonweal is going to begin publishing fiction again. Here’s what they had to say: Summer Madness at Commonweal: Our July Issue is Free to Everyone Online! It’s our way of welcoming (we hope) [...]
National Catholic Register journalist Tim Drake has published an interview with Catholic novelist Piers Paul Read, author of Death of a Pope (which is on my to-read-next pile). The article is online at the Register site, but you need to be a subscriber to read it. Here’s my favorite quote: Are there ways that you [...]
After wasting an hour or two too many several years ago on the much-ado-about-patent-nonsense controversy surrounding Dan Brown’s laughable blockbuster, The DaVinci Code, I have of late been sedulously avoiding all references to “Dan Brown”, “Angels and Demons”, “Ron Howard”, or “Tom Hanks”. But when I stumbled across Ross Douthat’s spade-calling op ed piece in [...]
We have two significant news items of interest to readers of Catholic fiction. First, J.R.R. Tolkien’s heretofore unknown and unpublished epic narrative poem, Sigurd and Gudrún, written in the 1930s and edited by son Christopher Tolkien, has just been published. According to this article in the Guardian UK, The 500-stanza poem is closely modelled on [...]
Hello, all! John Murphy here, resident illustrator for Idylls Press. Just letting you know that we have three new author portraits over at our Cafe Press site. The three victims of my pen & ink portraits are JK Huysmans, a French Decadent and later convert to Catholicism; Edith Wharton, the first female recipient of the [...]
The online Union of Catholic Asian News has a lovely little article by Sri Lankan journalist Hector Welgampola on the surprisingly powerful impact of Catholic fiction on Asian, especially Japanese culture. Here’s a quote: Years ago I read a UCAN report on the impact of Catholic writing on Japanese society. It cited a missioner saying [...]
Well, in spite of our natural Luddite tendencies the siren song of social networking has lured us to Facebook. Idylls Press, your hosts here at Catholic Fiction (as well as Bardolatry and Catholic Film Reviews) now have a Facebook page where our friends can keep up-to-date on the latest our small press has to offer [...]
John Updike died yesterday of lung cancer at age 76. Most memorials will concentrate on his prolific writing career, his prodigious gifts as a prose stylist, his contributions to the New Yorker, his conservatism (he was a churchgoer, a rare breed among the literati) and maybe the controversies over sexually explicit books like Couples and [...]
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