Here’s an interview with Ben Alexander about his recently published edited book. Ben also contributed to my Zygon symposium from a few years back. benjamin alexanderFlannery O’ConnorWalker Percy
Review of Randy Boyagoda’s latest novel Original Prin in The American Interest. CatholicismFlannery O’Connorgraham greeneJohn Kennedy TooleOriginal PrinPaul Eliephilosophical literatureRandy BoyagodaWalker Percy
Emily Temple for Literary Hub. The image below (not included on Emily’s list) happens to be one of a series of shots of a bronze sculpture by Valentina Mazzei. ArtCatholicismemily templeFlannery O’Connorpaintingphilosophical literatureValentina Mazzei
In view of the triumphant and generally admirable democratic-technological transformation of society, what is the ground of the novelist’s radical disquiet? Can the charge be brought against him, as Harvey Cox has accused the existentialists, of being an anachronism, one of the remnant of nineteenth-century “cultivated personalities” who, finding no sympathetic hearing from either technician…
Check out this close-grained discussion and analysis of this most unusual masterpiece (in subject matter at least) by Peter Viney but before one gets to it see this background article. Flannery O’Connorlevon helmmusicPeter VineyRobbie Robertsonthe bandWalker Percy
Great Catholic narratives grapple with suffering and doubt—experiences that transcend the faith and appeal to readers and viewers of different beliefs — The Atlantic a confederacy of duncesAnthony Burgess.CatholicismEvelyn WaughFlannery O’Connorgraham greeneJohn Kennedy Toolephilosophical literatureShūsaku EndōWalker Percy
When ideological noise drowns out the writer’s inner voice, few writers do their best work, no matter what their beliefs This from the Superior Catholic Herald CatholicismDana GioiaFlannery O’ConnorMichael HigginsPaul Eliephilosophical literaturethomas mertonWalker Percy
This from The New Republic CatholicismexistentialismFlannery O’Connorgraham greenephilosophical literatureReligionWalker PercyWilliam Giraldi
This in The Atlantic (H/T to Shannon Selin) If you’ve got only 10 minutes, read his essay “A Much Repeated Repetition.” (“Of a mechanical thing we have a full knowledge. Of a living thing we have a divine ignorance.”) Why should it want to make him a saint? Why Chesterton and not—if you’re talking about…
Immersed in reading Percy it has become blindingly clear that these two writers have such similar concerns. de Unamuno’s the Tragic Sense of Life rates as having made the most profound of impressions upon me — and that was going on thirty years ago. Whatever else separates Percy and de Unamuno, it is my view that de…
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