The Liguorian online has published an article by Brian Doyle called “Voices of Vision and Power: The Best U.S. Catholic Writers.” In it, Doyle briefly discusses the “Greats” of American Catholic literature that every Catholic writer should read, study and love.
At the top of the list, unsuprisingly, is the inimitable Bl. Flannery. Here’s a little [...]

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Thanks to Kevin Jones of Philokalia Republic (and a fellow member of the Yahoo discussion group, Literate Catholics Unite) for bringing to our attention at LCU a YouTube posting of Walker Percy’s 1989 speech at Notre Dame upon receiving the Laetare Medal. Click on the arrow below to begin.

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Heidi Saxton of Canticle Magazine, Lisa Hendey of CatholicMom.com and members of Catholic Writers olic Writers Guild are getting together to plan a new Catholic Writers Conference to be held in May 2008 in Chicago, in conjunction with RBTE, the Religious Book Trade Exhibition.
For more information, check out Heidi Saxton’s blog.

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Christian sci-fi writer Simon Morden gave a talk at the 2005 Greenbelt Arts Festival entitled “Sex, Death and Christian Fiction” in which he (quite cogently, I believe) critiques “Christian fiction, its theology and its shortcomings” as it is presently being published, particularly by US publishers adhering to Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) guidelines.
Here’s a sample:
Discovering the [...]

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Terri Windling of the beautiful Endicott Studios blog has a nice preview of the new Tolkien compilation (edited by Christopher Tolkien ) The Children of Hurin, illustrated by the incomparable Alan Lee. This looks like almost disturbing reading, but is surely on every mythopoeic-lit lover’s reading list.

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