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“The Splendor and the Wackiness”: An Interview with Heather King

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After living on both coasts of the United States, working jobs as diverse as waitress and lawyer, surviving alcoholism, cancer, and divorce, and undergoing a life-altering conversion, Catholic writer Heather King might be said to have seen it all. Her most recent memoir, Redeemed, strives to set down these experiences and more as viewed through the fresh eyes of a new Catholic. In her writing, King expresses a truth that her heroine Flannery O’Connor described: that, though faith may seem to some a “peculiar and arrogant blindness,” it can be an “extension of vision” when the believer engages and records reality with honesty and clarity. Or, as King puts it herself, faith enables us to see in a unique way “the meat and the splendor and the wackiness and the grittiness” of the world and of our experience. [Continue reading...]

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Wiseblood Books

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It looks like the surge of small presses interested in publishing fiction that seriously engages with questions of faith continues to grow. Now, in addition to Slant Books, Tuscany Press, Korrektiv Press, and various others that have started up in recent years, we have Wiseblood Books, an effort spearheaded by Dappled Things managing editor Joshua Hren (for [...]

Timothy Murphy’s Return to the Faith

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Timothy Murphy left the the Catholic Church his junior year of college, in part because he saw the faith as incompatible with is homosexuality, and only began his journey back many years later after receiving a fateful call from an old friend just as he had loaded his double-barreled shotgun and was preparing to kill [...]

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Lovers of Catholic fiction won’t want to miss out on a book giveaway taking place Tuesday and Wednesday (April 2nd and 3rd) of this week. Tuscany Press is releasing its first short story collection, the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction, and to mark the event they are giving away free Kindle copies of the book [...]

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