Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
What Does Christianity Offer?
Something a little different for our readers.
Friday Links
with John O’Callaghan at ND’s Fall Conference, Risking Enchantment: A Podcast with Rachel Sherlock, Rod Dreher & Diana Walsh Pasulka, Jack Butler in National Review
The Late Fragments of Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire’s concerns and obsessions are transposed into the impersonality of art. It is when we turn to his life and fragmentary works that we recognize the effort and talent his art required of him, and also the wealth of frailty that he accrued after a lifetime of investment is frustration, vice, and self-abuse.
Friday Links
with Catholic Literary Arts, Carla Galdo, Front Porch Republic, Joy Clarkson in Plough
Missions
“I pulled the car up outside my father’s house and smelled a wood fire from the indoor stove. By the time I got to the door he had already opened it. I stamped my feet as he said “no bother” and soon I was sitting across the from the wood stove and watching him gather together some papers to show me.”
Friday Links
with Luke Coppen, Dana Gioia, Mary Grace Mangano, First Things, Esquire, Paul Pastor, and more
Hermit Envy
“I’m reading this book about a monk…he prays and writes and reads books all day. You get the feeling that you are supposed to be in awe of this guy — his small living space — his simple meals — the fact that he does his own laundry and cooking. I’m rolling my eyes the whole time because I have a baby and a toddler and another baby on the way and I suffer from a deprivation of solitude and a deprivation of fellowship and a deprivation of getting out of the house. I won’t even get started on laundry and cooking.”
Friday Links
with Daniel McInerny, Amit Majmudar, Gerard Garrigan, James Matthew Wilson, and Ars Vivendi
Can all American literature be classified in two camps?
As Christopher Mari slides into middle age, he examines the literary Party of Hope and the Party of Memory. What does it mean to dwell on the past? What does it mean to live for the future?
Friday Links
with Jonathan Geltner on Jon Fosse, John Skillen, Luke Coppen interview Bishop Varden on a neglected virtue, a close read with Mark Halliday in Literary Matters.
Reading Ulysses in autumn
“After my summer experiences, I understood the tension in the hungry heart of the home-bound Ulysses.”
Friday Links
with Katy Carl on Jon Olav Fosse, some Auden, Maureen Swinger in Plough, J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction, Arthouse2B Upcoming Events, & Catholic Art Institute Short Film Festival
On getting old
Jeffrey Essmann throws out the actuarial numbers as he attempts to age with grace
Friday Links
with Joshua Hren, Robert Wyllie, Collegium, Malcolm Guite, Boris Dralyuk, and more
Finding the Kingdom of God at the Science Museum
Jeffrey Wald explores the kinship of all living creatures.
Friday Links
with Marly Youmans, Tom Hodgkinson, Richard M Reinsch II in Law and Liberty, Lesley Clinton, Jaya Savige reviews David Mason’s Pacific Light, & Katy Carl at The Merton Center, Columbia University, NYC
Seeking the Open Place with St. Augustine
There’s a lot of talk about “thin places” where one readily senses God. The saints, though, want more.
Friday Links
with Tessa Carmen and J.C. Scharl, Susannah Black Roberts in Mere Orthodoxy, Valerie Stivers in First Things, DT & Collegium: Dying Well to Live Well, & An Interview with Mike Rowe in Plough
Motels and past roads
If, as John Cheever once noted, America’s train stations and air terminals are its true cathedrals, motels may be its shrines. If not part of America’s soul, they are certainly part of its circulatory system.
Friday Links
on the The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Catholic Culture Podcast and Carla Galdo, Ben Christenson, Kathleen B. Jones in LitHub, Dana Gioia on Charles Causley, Talbot Brewer in Hedgehog Review, Joan Bauer in Psaltery & Lyre