Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links, December 17, 2021
+ Katy Carl’s 12/13 interview about her new novel is on YouTube.
+ Another YouTube video shows a tiny hermitage with a beautiful chapel—constructed by a part-time hermit part-time trekker priest in the Italian alps.
+ Reveling in unfinished conversion journeys.
+ A Christmas novella of how daily life radically changed for Catholics after the Chinese Communist Revolution and how the faith survived in one old Catholic man’s heart
Friday Links, October 8, 2021
+ Ever wonder if Chaucer could save your life? Terence Sweeney tells you why not. And then tells why you should read him anyways.
+ Iconographer Raymond Vincent’s lectures cover the origins, the theology, and the growth of sacred art.
+ Michele McAloon interviews Katy Carl about her newly published first novel, As Earth Without Water.
+ Karen Ullo’s 2018 book, Jennifer the Damned, gets a glowing recommendation in a Tweet.
+ Ottowa’s Chaudiere Books asks resident writer Natalie Morrill six questions.
+ Prof. Timothy Bartel teaches how to read sonnets in a Catholic Literary Arts class.
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 24, 2021
+ Catholic Literary Arts Fall Series of workshops and lectures.
+ Katy Carl’s new novel, reviews, comments, & first day sales.
+ Duncan Stroik interviewed about positive trends in sacred architecture.
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, September 10, 2021
Friday Links, September 3, 2021
+ Interview with and a review by Joshua Hren.
+ Congratulations to Katy Carl on her about to be published debut novel.
+ Invitation to a Dappled Things/Collegium Institute collaborative online seminar on a new Sigrid Undset translation.
+ Some helpful pre-reading for the seminar.
Friday Links, August 13 2021
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, August 7, 2020
Around the world and on many topics.
Friday Links, May 22, 2020
Deep down questions—and other notable things.
Friday Links: March 27, 2020
What do all these topics have in common?
“Mass of the Americas” and the Flourishing of Religious Culture
Interview with Composer Frank La Rocca