Friday Links
June 14, 2024
St. Gertrude and His Sacred Heart by Aumi K. Perry
Annual Summer Literary Series at UST
Investigating the art of murder mysteries: An interview with Fiorella De Maria
Endangered Mexican Salamander Being Captive Bred By Nuns
The Architecture of Prayer: An interview with architect Amanda Iglesias
Tom Hiddleston Recites “When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats
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Annual Summer Literary Series at UST
If you are in or anywhere near Houston, you need to get yourself over to UST for each of these readings. You missed A. M. Juster, but you can still catch Brigid Pasulka, Adam Kirsch, Ryan Wilson, Katy Carl, Ralph Harman, David Yezzi, and Angela O’Donnell.
Investigating the art of murder mysteries: An interview with Fiorella De Maria
DT’s own Rhonda Ortiz interviews Fiorella De Maria, author of the Fr. Gabriel mysteries.
Catholics do not have a monopoly on the mystery genre, but detective fiction holds a prominent place in the Catholic literary canon. Among the founding members of the famous Detection Club were G. K. Chesterton, who served as its president, and Msgr. Ronald Knox, whose Ten Rules for Detective Fiction helped shape the genre’s Golden Age.
Endangered Mexican Salamander Being Captive Bred By Nuns
In the annals of “Not on my Bingo Card”: “A critically endangered aquatic salamander that lives its entire life in the waters of Lake Pátzcuaro in Mexico is getting assistance from a convent of 12 nuns whose convent has been breeding the amphibians for more than 150 years.”
The Architecture of Prayer: An interview with architect Amanda Iglesias
Matthew Milliner and Amanda Iglesia talk about The Architecture of Prayer, a traveling exhibition “positions the church as one of the (if not the) longest and richest architectural experiments.”
Tom Hiddleston Recites “When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats
Yesterday was W. B. Yeats’s birthday and so, of course, you need to listen to and read some of his poems. I could listen to Tom Hiddleston all day—his perfect modulation and pitch. The man was born to recite poetry. Here’s Dana Gioia, another man made to recite poetry (and, in his case, write it) with his close reading of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” And Adrian Dunbar reciting W.B. Yeats’s “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.”
And the most random one: Harvey Keitel reciting “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” brought “by the advertising agency on behalf of UBS.” That the Union Bank of Switzerland. I’m glad they support poetry, but I’d love to know what brought this about!
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