self-obsessed

So here I am at the Catholic Imagination Conference, hosted by Loyola University in Chicago,...

Hey, remember that novel I was shopping around? This one: It’s a comedy about a...

Yesterday I finished Brenna Moore's Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the...

being a Catholic woman: Hey-- Back in 1998 or 1999, when I was a very...

Some personal news: Christ is risen! Holy Thursday: I avoided the Triduum services at my...

Okay people, it's time to put this out there. I have completed another novel (my...

I've been doing a thing where I bring various periods of my life, and the...

Some notes on Advent & addiction. I've said before that David Carr's Night of the...

is at Commonweal: Donna Deitch always intended Desert Hearts to be not only a lesbian...

One of the moments that stood out to me at that Calvin College "Faith &...

I've found these exercises so fascinating. Other people's lists have made me reconsider movies I'd...

It'll be a neat little "interview" on the topic, "Christianity Is the Most Materialistic of...

LOL what a terrible title. Okay, so I did a couple speaking engagements last week,...

So last weekend I got to visit Our Neighbor to the North, the magical land...

The BBC has this great series, "Playing Shakespeare," in which John Barton leads members of...

Or, less terrifyingly, "What's it like when you bring me to speak?" I realized you...

Concussion Diary, Week Four I Think. (Previously, on "Concussion Diary"...) First of all, it's weird...

So a week ago yesterday I fainted and concussed myself. It's all fine, they know...

doin' my thing! (a much more personal, less Charles Williams-y version of my Charles Williams...

This piece covers a surprisingly wide range of arguments, from film noir to cost savings...

I really enjoyed Melinda Selmys's list of the twenty books that have shaped her. It's...

with five things: The first time I got drunk, I was embarrassing. I was 17...

author of All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: ...The prose and dialogue of Amends...

reviewed by Jendi Reiter: ...Logos is a collection of persona poems set at a heroin...

reviews my novel--and gets off some great lines of her own in the process: Eve...

I urged you all to read Melinda Selmys's series on "making Lent hardcore," but I...

Just a quick post about the readings for today. The first reading s really personally...

at the University Bookman: Eve Tushnet’s self-published debut novel Amends is at full gallop out...

This is a very good article from the Boston Globe (h/t Maia Szalavitz, whom you...

...or, Every day is self-parody day. I did a couple speaking engagements recently (book me!...