Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Contemplative Realism: Event to Attend This Week, Book to Read, Manifesto to Sign
“The contemplative realist is keenly aware of the difference between the necessarily clinical gaze of the scientist and the mesmerized smittenness of the contemplative.”—Joshua Hren
Friday Links, October 29, 2021
+ Dark stuff for Halloween
* An invitation to a ZOOM about vampires, werewolves & serial killers, O My!
* An essay with more about the blood-drinking undead at Catholic World Report
* An EWTN interview with K.V. Turley and Fiorella De Maria about their novel about Bela Lugosi
* An article by Turley about the real horrors lived by Lugosi
* Ghost stories collected by Gerard Manley Hopkins
* Thirst: A Novel: Death of a priest
* The first horror moving picture—in 1896 (it really was scary!)
+ A round-up of print and online essays in DT’s “Symposium on Motherhood and Art”
Friday Links, October 1, 2021
+ “Return to Beauty” Chicago in-person conference with Sorab Ahmari, Liz Lev, and Cameron O’Hearn.
+ Trevor Merrill reviews Portrait of a Mirror: A Novel.
+ Not too late to eavesdrop on a conversation that Mike Aquilina and Fr. Colum Power had last summer about fallen Catholic writers, Jack Kerouac and James Joyce.
Friday Links, September 17, 2021
+ Now visible: a Cupid formerly overpainted on a well-known Vermeer.
+ Online seminar on Sigrid Undset’s Vows, with Katy Carl, starts Oct. 4.
+ Three ways Dante’s 700th death anniversary was observed this week.
+ Recent publications by Dappled Things editors and a contributor.
+ A retreat for artists and art lovers, with Dana Gioia and Kevin Turley, Sept 29.
Friday Links, February 26, 2021
Corpse Flower, Poem; Claude McKay, Poet; Retreat…
Friday Links, February 5, 2021
purgation, contests, recollections, kid art formation
Friday Links, January 15, 2021
Poetry, Art History, Homeless Benefit, a New Press
Friday Links, January 1, 2021
Friday Links, December 4, 2020
Writings of DT writers & others
Friday Links, November 20, 2020
Advent, O Antiphons, Announcements
Friday Links, July 10, 2020
Young Catholic Artists Event, O'Connor on a Pedestal? and More
Friday Links, June 12, 2020
Links from the B16 Institute, IHE, New Criterion, Patheos, and the Met
Friday Links, May 22, 2020
Deep down questions—and other notable things.
Friday Links: April 10, 2020
A few Good Friday links