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  2. The Lighthouse cover
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  1. The Sabbatical cover

    The Sabbatical

    May 20, 2022 2:00 am Leave a Comment

    Dr. Owen Whitfield is the elderly Oxford professor of history who first appeared in Michael O’Brien’s novel The Father’s Tale. In the events of The Sabbatical, which occur sometime later, Dr. Whitfield is looking forward to a sabbatical year of peace and quiet, gardening in his backyard, and tinkering with… Read more »

    Tags: Eastern Europe England Europe faith literature

  2. The Lighthouse cover

    The Lighthouse

    February 20, 2021 4:04 pm Leave a Comment

    Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean. A man without any family, he sees himself as a silent “vigilant”, performing his duties courageously year after year, with an admirable sense of responsibility. He cherishes… Read more »

    Tags: America literature Michael O'Brien

  3. If You Can Get It: A Novel cover

    If You Can Get It

    February 20, 2021 3:55 pm Leave a Comment

    Jen Nilsson has an MBA, a nice condo, and a fast-track job at a tech startup in Silicon Valley. If her big product launch goes well next month, she may finally land the marketing director job she’s been gunning for. But then her younger sister, Katie, just out of college… Read more »

    Tags: America family literature

  4. John Herreid

    Let’s Eat!

    August 26, 2016 12:15 pm 1 Comment

    Food crops up a lot in literature. The mushrooms and cakes in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the lovingly-depicted meal with the Beavers in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the extravagant descriptions of holiday dishes in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol all remind us that… Read more »

    Tags: cooking food literature pancakes recipes

  5. Petrichor

    November 6, 2015 1:18 pm 4 Comments

    This week it rained. This may not seem like an occurrence worth recording to many of you, but to those of us in this parched region of California, it was momentous. Our puppy, Snowy, had never encountered this before and had to be physically brought out into the yard to… Read more »

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  6. John Herreid

    Catholic Literature’s Bill of Health

    January 20, 2015 10:01 am 1 Comment

    Over at Catholic World Report, Carl Olson talks with Dana Gioia (we talked about him here previously) about the upcoming “Future of the Catholic Imagination” conference that will be held in February at the University of Southern California. Says Gioia: We are bringing hundreds of writers, teachers, and intellectuals together… Read more »

    Tags: Artur Rosman Carl Olson Catholicism Dana Gioia Gregory Wolfe IMAGE Journal literature Piers Paul Read

  7. Dan at Ignatius

    Walker Percy Gets Conferenced

    June 9, 2014 2:41 pm 1 Comment

    They were turning people away over at Rod Dreher’s moderately sized Walker Percy conference in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Which may come as a surprise to anyone who didn’t know there was any sort of Walker Percy conference going on anywhere. Or a Walker Percy walking bourbon tour and crawfish boil,… Read more »

    Tags: American South Catholic culture Catholic literature conferences culture festivals links literature novelists Walker Percy

  8. John Herreid

    The Poison of Cynicism

    June 5, 2014 5:23 pm Leave a Comment

    Lying there, for the few moments before Maes and the infirmarian raised him, he believed. Perhaps it was exhaustion that lowered the barriers pride and custom had long raised in him; perhaps the lucidity and intuitive accuracy of the vision he had beheld. He might never know, fully. But lying… Read more »

    Tags: cynicism Dayspring faith literature

  9. If you don’t look for it, you won’t find it

    May 23, 2014 1:02 pm 3 Comments

    A while back I participated in a discussion about art. The person who started the discussion was lamenting that in our modern world, good meaningful art was no longer being created. Everything good was in the past and the current world of art was devoid of talent and worth. Someone… Read more »

    Tags: art literature music visual arts

  10. Meryl Kaleida

    A Good Character Makes a Good Friend

    May 14, 2014 12:12 pm 5 Comments

    In my last post on Suffering and Inspiration, I mentioned that an author’s life can often give birth to the ideas for their characters. There are good reasons for this. A good character is built on events and people that an author has experienced. The human experience and other humans… Read more »

    Tags: character Disney hope literature Mary Poppins novelists novels writing