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		<title>Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/07/02/death-of-a-pope-by-piers-paul-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Sunderland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Suspense/Thriller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death of a Pope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ends justify the means]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Paul II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piers Paul Read]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009), 215 pages.
Reviewed by Christine Sunderland
This thoughtful literary thriller addresses weighty and timely themes: not only challenges to belief in an unbelieving world, but the devastation of AIDS and sexual license, the disparity between first and third worlds, rich and poor, and the role of a Church guided by tradition. Secular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers Up by Kevin Clark</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/06/23/numbers-up-by-kevin-clark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tannia Ortiz-Lopes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mystery/Detective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young Adult]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISBN-10: 1-60704-008-8
ISBN=13: 978-1-60704-008-8
published by Seton Books, $8.95
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès
In his book, &#8221;Numbers Up&#8221;, first time author Kevin Clark brings to the teens/young adult audience a crime story full of mathematical and science concepts woven into the storyline.
The story begins in the Institute for Applied Mathematics with the discovery of the body of renowned mathematician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/06/09/eighteen-challenges-in-contemporary-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wired]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wired has published a short but useful list of what writer Bruce Sterling regards as digital-age difficulties facing &#8220;literature&#8221; as we have known it these last few centuries. The fact that, &#8220;wired&#8221; (relatively speaking) as I am, I am unable to follow a couple of his examples may be proof enough of the problem us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piers Paul Read on the Vocation of the Catholic Novelist</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/26/piers-paul-read-on-the-vocation-of-being-a-catholic-novelist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/26/piers-paul-read-on-the-vocation-of-being-a-catholic-novelist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News/Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic novelist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death of a Pope]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tim Drake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s my favorite quote:
Are there ways that you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Darkness Did Not by William Biersach</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/25/the-darkness-did-not-by-william-biersach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/25/the-darkness-did-not-by-william-biersach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tannia Ortiz-Lopes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery/Detective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mystery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[priest-detective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Darkness Did Not]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vampires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William L. Biersach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopes
In his book, The Darkness Did Not, author William L. Biersach brings to the adult reader an urban fantasy thriller.
When corpses of young women with their bodies drained of blood suddenly start to accumulate in the morgue, the police are perplexed and extremely afraid. The police seek the assistance of Father John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ross Douthat on Dan Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/21/ross-douthat-on-dan-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Adaptations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News/Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angels and Demons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DaVinci Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Douthat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After wasting an hour or two too many several years ago on the much-ado-about-patent-nonsense controversy surrounding Dan Brown&#8217;s laughable blockbuster, The DaVinci Code, I have of late been sedulously avoiding all references  to &#8220;Dan Brown&#8221;, &#8220;Angels and Demons&#8221;, &#8220;Ron Howard&#8221;, or &#8220;Tom Hanks&#8221;. But when I stumbled across Ross Douthat&#8217;s spade-calling op ed piece in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Atlantic Monthly on &#8220;Flannery&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/17/the-atlantic-monthly-on-flannery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/17/the-atlantic-monthly-on-flannery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 05:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic Monthly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Gooch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flannery O'Connor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph O'Neill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph O&#8217;Neill, whose novel Netherland is this year&#8217;s recipient of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award, has written a piece on Flannery O&#8217;Connor for the recent issue of The Atlantic Monthly (using Brad Gooch&#8217;s biography, Flannery: A Life, as the occasion). O&#8217;Neill describes O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s writing as &#8220;unfairly&#8221; and &#8220;wickedly&#8221; good:
The narrating third person hovers in an almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nation reviews C.S. Lewis book</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/11/the-nation-reviews-cs-lewis-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/11/the-nation-reviews-cs-lewis-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography/Autobiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronicles of Narnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CS Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Magician's Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Passion of Christ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Nation has reviewed The Magician&#8217;s Book by Laura Miller, a memoir about Miller&#8217;s experience re-reading C.S. Lewis&#8217; beloved Chronicles of Narnia as an adult. Now a successful editor of Salon, Miller was once enthralled by Lewis&#8217; Narnia series. Her book &#8212; part memoir, part literary criticism &#8212; is her attempt to theorize why Lewis&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epic Poem by Tolkien published, and Cormac McCarthy gets PEN award</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/06/epic-poem-by-tolkien-published-and-cormac-mccarthy-gets-pen-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/05/06/epic-poem-by-tolkien-published-and-cormac-mccarthy-gets-pen-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 16:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News/Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blook Meridian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Tolkien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epic narrative poem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.R.R. Tolkien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saul Bellow award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sigurd and Gudrun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Road]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have two significant news items of interest to readers of Catholic fiction.
First, J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;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 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graham Greene: A Life in Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/04/27/graham-greene-a-life-in-letters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/04/27/graham-greene-a-life-in-letters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography/Autobiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Dirda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Power and the Glory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Dirda, Washington Post&#8217;s perspicacious literary critic, sets his sights on a new collection of correspondence by Graham Greene, the great Catholic novelist. He writes: 
His men and women are murderers, traitors, unhappy adulterous lovers, sinners of every stripe&#8211;and he doesn&#8217;t glamorize their seediness, their misery, or their desperation. Evelyn Waugh bluntly called them &#8220;charmless.&#8221; Nearly [...]]]></description>
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