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Posted in Literary Fiction, Religious Life, Theological/Philosophical on Feb 5th, 2009
In September of last year I wrote a piece for Godspy on Ron Hansen’s Exiles a haunting and beautifully written meditation on priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and the composition of one of his masterworks, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” about a shipwreck that took the lives of five Franciscan nuns in 1875. Hansen’s earlier novel, [...]
Posted in Biography/Autobiography on Jan 21st, 2009
From Michael Dirda’s Washington Post review of a new biography of the Catholic poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, written by Paul Mariani:
“There have been several previous biographies of Hopkins, including a fine one by Robert Bernard Martin, an eminent scholar of Victorian poetry. But Mariani’s possesses three great strengths: 1) Mariani has lived with Hopkins’s poetry [...]
Posted in Literary Criticism, Writing on Oct 27th, 2008
reviewed by John Murphy
How Fiction Works is a presuming title for a slim little book, made more conspicuous by a chapter called “A Brief History of Consciousness.” Oh, is that all? But the book’s author is James Wood, the New Yorker’s perspicacious literary critic, and his Preface quickly allays any fears of gassy pretension [...]
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 [...]
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Death of a Pope by Piers Paul Read
Orthodoxies, whether of the Right or of the Left, flourish chiefly among the literary intelligentsia, the people who ought in theory to be guardians of freedom of thought.
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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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