Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
We have a winner!; Out of Practice; An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive; Poetess (and Possible Future Saint) Captures Essence of Holy Saturday; Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray; Catholic Culture Podcast: On René Girard—Trevor Cribben Merrill
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 J.F. Powers Prize in Short Fiction
Is there such thing as a writerly vocation?
Don’t miss this one from Angela Townsend:
“I am aware I am insufferable. I am not concerned. God said something once about suffering small mammals. I assume God finds me hilarious. I write about my cats more than any mortal could stomach. I write about cola, pantyhose, and the actual Holy Ghost. I write about Hildegard of Bingen, pretzel nuggets, and the old man at work who signs sticky notes, “your forever friend, Joe.” I write about senators, Shaquille O’Neal, and walruses walrusing mightily upon the shore.“
Friday Links
The Miracle That Grew From the Ashes of 2018; Rhonda Ortiz on The Coming Home Network; Easter Bouquest of Poems 2025; Jordan Castro on Gatsby; Ethan McGuire: The Rusty Paperweight
John Keats and the times we’re in
The pursuit of beauty is the perfect response to uncertainty.
Friday Links
Seeds of truth
Mike Schramm on the similarity of the Gospels and certain pagan myths.
Friday Links
Fr. Ference on Flannery O’Connor at 100; Shemaiah Gonzalez’s Undaunted Joy; Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique; James Matthew Wilson on Dana Gioia; Luma Simms on Defending Syria’s Christians; Nadya Williams on Shusaku Endo, Christianity, and Japan: Manifesto! Podcast
Tradition is the guardian of beauty
What are the conditions for creativity and beauty? Father Michael Rennier thinks that, perhaps, we have it all wrong.
Friday Links
‘Everything Beautiful Comes From and Speaks of God,’ Says French Artist; James Matthew Wilson on the Catholic Culture Podcast; The Moral Authority of a Body; B.D. McClay: The Soul Should Not Be Handled; And Announcing the J.F Powers Short Fiction Contest Shortlist
Announcing the 2024 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction Finalists
A little incarnation
On this feast of the Annunciation, Jessica Lynne Henkle reminds us of the maternal instinct that creates little incarnations of beauty in all sorts of forms.
Friday Links
Ekphrastic Sacred Poetry Contest from Catholic Literary Arts; Christopher Scalia on“Mending Wall”; To Save Our Cities, Let’s Go to the Movies by Jon Bishop; Matthew Milliner: Mary Underground; WSJ reviews some children’s books; Mark Bauerlein & Cheryl Hughes on Fulton Sheen; Cassandra Nelson & Andrew Klavan on A Theology of Fiction
Artificial Attention
In the age of AI, attention is more valuable than ever, which is why it’s a perfect Lenten sacrifice.
Saint Patrick’s Day Links
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! An extra set of links for the day that’s in it. Slaínte!
Friday Links
From St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to the Sisters of Life: A Legacy of Grace, Unbroken; Claudel's Poetics: A Cosmic Word of Praise w/ Dr Thomas Pfau; Thomist Poets Reading Series with Zina Gomez-Liss; Donal Ryan Wins An Post Irish Book of the Year; “Mo Mhíle Stór” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill translated by Heaney
The Failed Poet’s Department
Sister Maria goes through the 5 stages of writing grief and… forgives Dappled Things.
Friday Links
Ayako Sono, Novelist Who Infused Works with Christian Ethics, Dies at 93; Michael Lucchese on T. S. Eliot and the Need for Lent; Auden’s Island: The poet in the postwar era by Alan Jacobs; David Perell and Dana Gioia in conversation; Heidie Sensema: Smash the Small Cosmos
Grapes on the road
McCarthy, Steinbeck, and each lifetime as a personal apocalypse
Meditations in a time of Zillow
All the thoughts that come with selling a family home, because old houses and forgotten places are “not nothing.”