Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links, March 11, 2022
+ Looking for a community of writers and artists? Check out Catholic Literary Arts.
+ The witness of Richard Wilbur to Christian virtue.
+ Who is taking up the mantle of Maritain, Hildebrand, and Gilson? Thomas Mirus asks James Matthew Wilson in a Catholic Culture podcast.
+ The joke’s on Satan: Jacob Riyeff writes about how the devil tricked his own self during Christ’s atoning Passion.
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, July 23, 2021
Should Rome decide which art is suitable for churches?
Dante’s youthful handwriting discovered in examples of his student copywork.
Why we need stories, to teach morals without moralizing.
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.”
The Watchmen Part I (or, the moot meets CSPRTTDWL)
What became of the Christian intellectuals?