A true poetics engages the real. A true poetics is not kitsch or sentimentalism. As Flannery O’Connor reminds us, the best writing and poetry “is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the […]
For the past twenty years, the Catholic Church in America has been battered by scandal and division. The John Paul II generation appears to have split itself into three camps. The first is a traditionalist […]
In his essay, “A Secret Vice,” originally a 1931 lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote of a “secret hierarchy” of individuals who have the curious hobby of constructing their own languages. Perhaps the […]
The University of St. Thomas in Houston, founded by the Basilian Fathers in 1947 and home to over 3,000 students, has established a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program that promises to be […]
What a curious thing, the short story collection—not taking the form of a novel, yet mounting something more, presumably, than a mere assemblage of previously released material (Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales notwithstanding). A book of short […]
Flannery O’Connor, says Joshua Hren, “raised some crucial problems: in literary works written in a world that lives as though God is dead, do we need […]
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