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Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (October 2001) ISBN-10: 0807127418 ISBN-13: 978-0807127414 reviewed by Kathleen Valentine Sad, beautiful, and disturbing….< Emma is obsessed with Pascal. Pascal is obsessed with Claire. Claire is obsessed with God. This strange and compelling love story is both erotic and spiritual and blurs the lines between the two [...]
By Steve Weatherbe Meeting Catholicism through Thomas Merton Raised in a secular Jewish home in Brooklyn, he followed the plan to Columbia University, where he first encountered Catholicism in the still vibrant memory of Thomas Merton. Merton had edited a literary magazine at Columbia in his undergraduate days and Gruber now held down the same [...]
Paperback: 286 pages Publisher: SaberCat Comics (September 16, 2009) ISBN-10: 0972153349 ISBN-13: 978-0972153348 reviewed by Jody Rakis The novel runs along the same lines as the graphic book and the comics (reviewed here). It has the same loveable characters. However, the novel gives more detail, humor and depth to the story. And, it takes the [...]
The British magazine Standpoint has published an article by Piers Paul Read about his recent US book tour promoting his bestselling novel, Death of a Pope. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in here for readers and writers of Catholic fiction, but he starts it all off with a story, which, though relating to a [...]
The Veritas blog has reprinted a lovely article by Mark Lawson on Graham Greene and his influence as a Catholic novelist. The article, “In the Shadows of Greeneland”, was originally published by British Catholic paper, The Tablet. Here’s an excerpt: Today, Catholicism, wanderlust and expatriation all lack the attraction they had for writers in Greene’s [...]
The Knight of the Temple is the debut novel of The Crown of the World trilogy written by young author Nathan Sadasivan. The book cover shows Christ’s crown of thorns above a battle scene where the main character, Godfrey de Montferrat, a bold and brave Temple Knight, is engaged on a battle. The author takes [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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