A discussion of the book/film of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is going on over on the Yahoo discussion group, Literate Catholics Unite, and I thought it would do a bit of double duty for me to post here what I just posted there about this book/movie, both of which I regard as [...]

Tags: authors, books, Catholic fiction, Cormac McCarthy, movies, novels, theodicy

The New York Times has an excellent editorial about the recently published letters of Mother Teresa. (There’s a nice mention of Bl. Flannery, too.) Here’s an excerpt:
To the extent people ever tried to project themselves into the mind of Mother Teresa, they might have pictured a Gothic vault washed in dazzling beams of saintly conviction. [...]

Tags: books, Mother Teresa, spiritual darkness

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 [...]

Tags: authors, books, Brian Doyle, Catholic fiction, Flannery O'Connor, writers

Lisa Hendey is running a contest during the month of August on her excellent Catholicmom.com website. Broadway Books, publisher of The Book of Jane, has generously donated several copies of the book for Lisa to use as giveaways. To enter, readers just need to drop Lisa an email with “The Book of Jane Contest” [...]

Tags: books, contests

It appears there are petitions circulating, on and off the net, to beg J.K.Rowling not to make Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the last book in the series, or at least the last book in the world she’s created.
I have mixed feelings. I don’t want the series to end any more than any other [...]

Tags: books, Harry Potter