Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links, March 18, 2021
+ What power does a poem have, and what work can it do?
+ Speaking of power, Elizabeth Lev shows how the power of art in Ukraine is cultural memory.
+ “The Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination” 2022 Catholic Imagination Conference. Are you going?
+ St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry is offering the chance to audit one summer course for free—including one on the nature of aesthetic experience, the relationship between truth, goodness, and beauty, and the role of beauty in liturgy.
Friday Links, November 12, 2021
+ James Matthew Wilson announces the first annual Summer Writers Institute.
+ Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life.
+ Can signing your name to a graffiti-ed wall affirm your enrollment in the communion of saints?
+ What do you think? Is Sally Rooney this generation’s greatest Catholic novelist?
Friday Links, November 5, 2021
+ James Matthew Wilson podcast interview at Deep Down Things, the podcast (not us)
+ Kerry McCarthy, Early Music singer and biographer of Renaissance composers Byrd and Tallis, is interviewed about the traditional choir schools put down by the Reformation.
+ Word on Fire reminds us that “Momento Mori” is a Catholic thing.
+ In time for Christmas giving, a chance to order artwork by Daniel Mitsui and get a free Momento Mori giclée print you might keep for your own contemplation of the Four Last Things.
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 15, 2021
+ Poet Dana Gioia talks about the strange, dark life of poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.
+ Architect Duncan Stroik talks about how when we design and fund beautiful buildings for the poor, we do them for Christ.
+ Michael O’Brien writes an Open Letter to Fellow Writers and Artists.
+ Fr. Michael Rennier writes about five recent books he wants to read.
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, August 6, 2021
Friday Links, July 30, 2021
+ More about the age-old question: What qualifies a work of fiction as literary art?
+ On the connection between the Benedictine vision and poetry.
+ Raft of Stars novel read chapter by chapter on Wisconsin Public Radio.
+ New Wiseblood Press essay by Michael D. O’Brien, on the history of mankind’s creative imagination.
+ “Dear Holy Father”: some respectful reactions to Pope Francis’ recent motu proprio.
Friday Links, June 25, 2021
+ Sixth Power of the Word Conference will explore the “call of literature” for authors and readers.
+ About the ways number and logic underlie the entirety of Dante’s Commedia.
+ Congratulations to DT editorial assistant Mary Woods on her first novel!
+ Two Internet novels get us closer to understanding the experience of life online.
Friday Links, June 18, 2021
+ A novel of Caryll Houselander, mystic practitioner of the art of suffering well, to be republished soon
+ Raymond Chandler on captivating readers with emotion and well-placed adjectives, and other quotes from his letters
+ Simone Weil on what it takes to write about imaginative evil without causing evil
+ Rabbi Shalom Carmy on creativity and serving God
+ A review of The Five Wounds, which, according to Amazon, was “Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, The Week, The Millions, and Electric Lit”
+ Joshua Hren writes about artful irony that “gives a damn.”
Friday Links, May 28, 2021
The Letters of Magdalen Montague, Art is a Jealous God, Laurus, and more.