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reviewed by Arthur Powers Short stories are the chamber music of literature, using the same instruments to create, on a smaller scale, a different and complementary art form. Katherine Anne Porter was a deft short story writer. I had no idea that Porter was a Catholic when I picked up her Stories. She was simply [...]
Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: Fiction Collective 2; 1 edition (October 7, 2010) ISBN-10: 1573661589 ISBN-13: 978-1573661584 Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches I found this book somewhat mystifying. The stories in it are beautifully written with a dreamy, existential quality that kept me reading even when I had no clue where the story [...]
reviewed by Debra Murphy For those readers of CatholicFiction.net who are not yet familiar with it, IMAGE journal, published by the Center for Religious Humanism at Seattle Pacific University, is one of the few (and finest) journals around whose editorial focus is the intersection of the Arts and Religion, especially Judeo-Christian religion. Edited by Gregory [...]
published by Warren Machine Company ISBN: 978-1-934866-05-4 reviewed by Debra Murphy The Liturgy of the Hours (Office of Readings), the Seventh Week of Easter contains the following excerpt from a sermon by a sixth century African bishop: The disciples spoke in the language of every nation. At Pentecost God chose this means to indicate the [...]
reviewed by Rae Stabosz I must confess a weakness for fiction about mysticism and spiritual warfare, especially that featuring angels and other such ethereal creatures. This predilection made me eager to read David B. Harrington’s book Inclinations, whose cover blurb promised “… angels and mythical creatures….a strange and allegorical mixture of poetry and prose. Based [...]
reviewed by Rae Stabosz This morning, for the umpteenth time, I looked on the Internet for reviews of the excellent collection of vampire stories Rivals of Dracula. I love this short story collection and want to see what others think. But today, as usual, I found nothing. As close to Nada as it gets. A [...]
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès In her latest book, Journeys, author Celia A. Leaman takes us on an odyssey of emotions while she shares seven well-crafted, profound, and intimate stories based on real life events laced with a touch of fantasy. Contrary to her other two fiction books Who is Margaret, What is she? and Island [...]
Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway reviewed by John Murphy Wild Nights! The latest from Joyce Carol Oates, prolific novelist and essayist, is a dizzying hall-of-mirrors where she presides over a literary seance, calling from the deep five legends of American letters: Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, [...]
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 as [...]
reviewed by Tannia E. Ortiz-Lopes Island Stories is a collection of three previously published fiction stories. Some of the author’s stories and themes repeat from other publications, but the drama and the outcomes take on a different flavour and an interesting end in this humorous collection. Ms. Leaman has the ability to convert common life [...]
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