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Posted in Literary Fiction, News/Events, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2008
by Ron Hansen
[amazonify]0060981180:right[/amazonify]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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2008
I am delighted to report that Clan Murphy has (more or less) completed its relocation to Ashland, Oregon, which means that we can begin to post again, or at least (while we’re warming up those cold “writing muscles”). pass along some interesting tidbits.
Expect a new book review, as well as some exciting news about our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2008
Friends of Catholic Fiction and Idylls Press, please excuse our recent silence; we’ve been re-locating, both as a business and as a family. As is so often the case, I underestimated how challenging and time-consuming this process would be…will someone please remind me never to move again?
The good news is: we’ve sold our home of twelve years [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2008
Catholicfiction.net reviewer and Idylls Press illustrator John Murphy has copped the enviable job of flying to Washington D.C. and New York this week to blog for GodSpy on Pope Benedict’s visit to America. John’s first post, America: Encounter the Pope can be read here. His latest posts will appear daily on the GodSpy front page.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2007
Idylls Press has just added three new Christian author portraits to its Cafepress page: John Keats, Joseph Conrad, and Oscar Wilde! You can have their familiar faces printed on t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, aprons, mousepads, journals, postcards, and (my personal favorite) a beer stein.
Might make a good Christmas present for the family bibliophile. Of course, if [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2007
Catholic Radio International launches its newest program, Cover to Cover
Catholic Radio International is pleased to announce the launch of our latest show, Cover to Cover. Cover to Cover brings great classic and contemporary literature to life.
Catholics have made enormous contributions to the literary life of the world for centuries. From Augustine and Dante to Chesterton [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2007
editors of Infinite Space, Infinite God, an anthology of thought-provoking science fiction with a Catholic twist.
Karina and Robert Fabian are life-long sci-fi fans and Catholics who combined these interests into the award-winning anthology, Infinite Space, Infinite God. (See review) Rob is an officer in the Air Force who recently took command of the 91st Maintenance [...]
Posted in Biography/Autobiography, Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2007
To fans of Bl. Flannery, this is very exciting news: 274 letters she wrote to longtime correspondent Betty Hester have been unsealed—one hopes they will also soon be published!
Here’s a writing gem from one of them, which I’m going to send out to the Quotesletter list:
“You would probably do just as well to get [...]
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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: Dawn, I found a French translation with Mauriac's intro, presumably also in French, but know of no English versions. (See; http://tinyurl.com/qbv3qn )
: I am trying to find the edition of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory that has an intro by Francois Mauriac. Can you help? [...]
: GREAT SITE! I only just found it because I have a guy who asked me to read The Shack. Too, bad he really loved it [...]
: Thanks for the tip, Costance. We'll check her out.
: Ya'll have an amazing site here, but you should read Carmen Marcoux's books and list them, because they are fabulous, and Catholic.
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