June 23rd, 2006
A hearty “Amen!” to this rant against the American Film Institute’s bizarre dissing of Jesus movies and Frodo (and The Mission to boot) on their list of “most inspiring” films of all time.
I, too, wouldn’t quibble with their number one choice, the incomparable It’s a Wonderful Life, but fellas, really now…
June 19th, 2006
The beautiful feast of Corpus Christi seems an appropriate occasion, given its especially “incarnational” flavor, to launch a little blog-project I’ve been thinking about for some time.
As I’ve mentioned earlier, our fall publication schedule at Idylls Press has seen to it that I haven’t had much time for anything else of late, but trusting that [...]
June 15th, 2006
A television heads up: Tonight’s Live from Lincoln Center on your local PBS station is broadcasting a performance of the much-acclaimed new Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza. Fans of Catholic fiction should take note because it is based on a novella by Elizabeth Spencer and is redolent with Catholic themes. There was [...]
June 9th, 2006
Blogging has been (and must needs be) slow for a bit as I tick off certain critical thing on the Idylls Press To-Do list–but until such time as I can update more regularly, take a peak at Matthew Lickona’s very nice review of The Mystery of Things on Godspy.
Matthew is the author of Swimming with [...]
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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The concentration resulting fom a framework of theology and philosophy, [T.S. Eliot] says, is one of the reasons ‘why Dante is a classic and Blake only a poet of genius.’ The intellectual disorder of the nineteenth century gave the poet no such system, indeed it imposed upon him the necessity of being at once an artist and an original speculative thinker—an impossible combination. Thus the effort to construct for himself a workable plan out of the odds and ends of the wreckage of philosophical systems not infrequently resulted in grotesque and unsteady structures, the early collapse of which left him a prey to despair and frustration.
— Calvert Alexander, SJ