Dan Gheno an artist whose paintings were featured in the 9 11 issue of America recently stopped by America house to offer a reflection about art as a meditation on grief and to discuss the imagery in his work

I don rsquo t read on the beach The beach is for long walks and quick plunges into the surf I am at Sea Bright the northernmost town on the Jersey Shore for two weeks and I brought Pat Conroy rsquo s My Reading Life with me perfect company as I sit in the front room or on the balcony overloo

A provocative new approach to the Spiritual Exercises

“I didn’t want the film simply to be about the ‘life of a saint,’” says Roland Joffe of “There Be Dragons.”

Ron Hansen reviews Andrew Dubus III’s memoir of his absentee father

'Peter's faith--and lack thereof--helps guide my writing and my life.'