Michael O’Connell’s ‘Startling Figures’ asks what American Catholic writers have in common—and the answers are not always obvious.
Liam Callanan
Liam Callanan is the winner of the 2017 George W. Hunt, S.J. Prize, co-sponsored by America Media and the St. Thomas More Chapel & Center at Yale University. His new novel, Paris by the Book, will be published in April.
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Review: Is there still such a thing as a Catholic writer?
Can poetry matter? Yes. Can the Catholic writer today matter? Of course. But it is instructive that Gioia’s essay and book title does not ask the latter question.
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What—if anything—ensures a new college student will keep going to Mass?
It is in college that a young Catholic truly has to lay claim to her faith.
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Good nonfiction may teach us what to believe, but fiction teaches us how
Fiction moves us, engages us, finds for us truths we may not have recognized when first presented to us as fact. Fiction teaches us agility, the importance of leaping from word to meaning, and the pleasure that’s to be had in doing so.
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The time the Jesuits deleted a paragraph out of a Flannery O’Connor essay
Be careful when you’re editing famous writers!