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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Mariette in Ecstacy (1992)

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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