The Prestige is a smart and stylish mind game. Directed by Christopher Nolan, best known for the ingenious narrative gambit of Memento (the story’s told backwards) and for the psychological complexity he brought to the Batman franchise with the Bale-starring Batman Begins, the Prestige is an enjoyable brain-bender – smarter than your average popcorn flick, [...]

Tags: Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, film, movie, Patrick McGoohan, The Prestige, The Prisoner

By way of the Willamette Writers newsletter, I learned the other day of a Hopi proverb that goes, “The one who tells the stories rules the world.” I was pretty impressed by that notion and promptly sent it out to our “Quotes for Catholic Writers” list. This morning I received the following reaction from one [...]

Getting back to books and the discomfort booksellers and publishers, including Catholic ones, are experiencing right now, there appears to be an analogous situation in the movie industry. Take, for instance, this commentary from our Salem, OR arts observer, Ron Cowan, on the opening this weekend of an eleven-screen theater in one of the local [...]

Taking an appropriately “Sunday Appriciation” hiatus from the publishing blogs about the PNBA trade show, I just wanted to mention that my daughters Rachel and Maire and I were very privileged Friday evening to attend the Mass and consecration ceremony for Regina Dibb. who has pledged herself to the vocation of Consecrated Virginity in the [...]

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Our discussion with the academic press book rep about how his corner of the book business is being affected by the Internet also included a discussion of another aspect of the ongoing digital revolution: Print-on-demand. Until recently that phrase was associated almost exclusively with self-publishers and vanity presses, but the technology is being used more [...]