Every other year, Calvin College in Michigan hosts a Festival of Faith and Writing, and it is definitely on my list of “things to do before I start pushing up daisies.” This year’s speakers included Walter Wangerin, Marilynne Robinson, Salmon Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, and Alice McDermott.
Read an article about the festival from Publishers Weekly [...]

Godspy has a wonderful interview with Wim Wenders about his new movie, Land of Plenty. Here’s an excerpt:
The most urgent reason for me to want to make this movie was that I felt my religion was somehow hi-jacked. All of a sudden, “Christian” meant right-wing, conservative, even fundamentalist. A total perversion of all Christian values [...]

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And a blessed feast of St. George, to boot.
Those who’ve read my novel will know why this day holds a particular significance to me, though suffice it to say, for present purposes, that no lover of English literature could fail to note the delightful symbolic synchronicity of the Bard’s birth (and death) day falling on [...]

I’ve got a new review up at Catholicfiction.net, of Robina Williams’ delightful little post-mortem fantasy, Jerome and the Seraph. Check it out. I found it real balm for the soul to read at the end of a hectic day, and much fun as well.

Catholic novelist Muriel Spark died April 13 at the age of 88.
Born in Scotland, Spark was a convert—her father was Jewish, her mother Anglican. She wrote twenty-two novels, many of them still in print (and listed on our Catholic Fiction Reading List.) Her most famous novel was The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The book [...]