I’m in the University Bookman’s Summer Reading Round-Up

with the diary of a courtesan-turned-Dominican, among other works:

I’m about to plunge into Brenna Moore’s Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905–1944)—an exploration of the role of suffering in the thought of a Jewish convert at a time when such conversions were especially fraught. Also hope to read Liane de Pougy’s diaries, published as My Blue Notebooks.

more including a history of gangsta rap and Straussian Socrateses (Socrati?)