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February 22, 2019
“The Value of Public Penance in the Age of Clerical Abuse, Mass Incarceration, And #MeToo”: I’m in America
the magazine, though also the country: Bishop Knestout is not the only U.S. prelate to...
January 2019
January 20, 2019
Alms for Oblivion: I review a new biography of Edward Gorey
at the University Bookman: Many years ago I saw an obituary notice in the local...
December 2018
December 12, 2018
Helen Andrews on the Private Meanings of Public Shaming
at First Things: Moving to the other side of the world did not diminish the...
December 08, 2018
Is the Best Catholic Horror Movie of 2018… “The Song of Bernadette”?
I ask the hard questions, at America: At first glance, “The Song of Bernadette” seems...
November 2018
November 12, 2018
War of the “We Are the World”s: I read SPACE OPERA
You will know if you want to read Catherynne Valente's new novel, Space Opera, as...
October 2018
October 18, 2018
“I’LL SELF-CARE WHEN I SELF-DIE” And Other Small Brilliances of “BoJack Horseman”
In which St Francis de Sales watches season 5 of the depressed-horse show and exclaims,...
July 2018
July 17, 2018
I Review “Sorry to Bother You”
for America magazine: If I had to sell you “Sorry to Bother You,” the corporate...
July 08, 2018
Is Recovery Anti-Literary? I review the new Leslie Jamison memoir/literary analysis
for AmCon: When Leslie Jamison realized she had to quit drinking, she was also giving...
April 2018
April 13, 2018
Double Exposure: Notes on “Weiner”
This is a documentary about Anthony Weiner's 2013 campaign for mayor of New York City....
February 2018
February 25, 2018
Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned. It’s Been Two Hundred Years Since My Last Confession…
I stayed up 'til 1:30 this morning to finish Gabriel Blanchard's Victorian vampire novel, Death's...
October 2017
October 25, 2017
Alain de Botton on Marrying Wrong
via a married friend who says almost all of this resonates! ...ADB: And so we...
October 17, 2016
“Eat, Pray, Tail: I Wore a Tail for a Week and Learned Nothing”: A Modern Ascetic
at Jezebel: I don’t remember exactly how I played myself into wearing a tail for...
July 2016
July 18, 2016
The Cathedral-Builders: Movie notes
In chronological order of when I saw them. The cathedrals are toward the end. Vic...
July 15, 2016
“Humiliation and Reconciliation”: I’m at AmCon
as usual I seem to have kept the most important stuff for the last three...
January 2016
January 21, 2016
“Last Year’s Horror Cornucopia: Suffering in Style”: I’m at First Things
every Halloween is self-parody Halloween: Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015...
January 14, 2016
Contrarian to the Stars: I Defend the “Star Trek” Episodes You Hate
I have finally finished my epic rewatch of "Star Trek: The Original Series." (Previous posts...
December 2015
December 18, 2015
From Jean-Pierre de Caussade, “Abandonment to Divine Providence”
For example, let's take a piece of stone destined to be carved into a crucifix...
December 08, 2015
“Can Prison Help Convicts?”: A Panel Answers a Lot of Questions (But Not the One It Asked)
So a couple weeks ago I watched this video and it's an interesting intro to...
November 2015
November 02, 2015
Commonweal’s Take on My Novel, “Amends”
is very generous: Now Tushnet has published her first novel, Amends, which is about a...
September 2015
September 07, 2015
The Human Heart Is a Cactus, The Desert Makes It Bloom: Notes on Friendship and a Courage Conference
So I was invited to a conference run by Courage, a Catholic ministry to people...
September 01, 2015
Wesley Hill: “Eve Tushnet’s Spirituality of Humiliation”
a super-neat piece that connects my new novel to some themes in my nonfiction writing:...
August 2015
August 22, 2015
The Kindle Version of My Novel, “Amends,” Now Available: Mysticism, Sleaze, Good Times and Bad Advice
You can purchase it (or the paperback, if you prefer books for mammals): A month...
August 17, 2015
“Amends,” My Novel About Reality-TV Rehab, Is Available in Paperback
now! A month in rehab would be stressful enough without a television audience. When the...
June 2015
June 29, 2015
Former Baltimore Cop Tweets the Corruption He Saw on the Force
The tweets are here (and as always it's a great mix of violence, systematic racism,...
March 2015
March 23, 2015
Never Go to Dostoyevsky’s Parties: “The Eternal Husband and Other Stories”
Just a quick note to say that I finished this collection of short stories, translated...
March 03, 2015
Quick and Cheap Reviews of Quick and Cheap Movies
Or, a quick fix of slick flicks. Devil's Pass: Found-footage Dyatlov Pass Incident investigation. Some...
February 2015
February 27, 2015
“In Cana of Galilee”: PEG
old post well worth revisiting: This initiation of the miracle by Mary is not just...
February 21, 2015
Marriage as Work vs Marriage as the Cross
From the department of Those Who Can't Do and/or Fools Rush In, so as always,...
January 2015
January 29, 2015
Hi, I’m Stercorius and I’m an Addict
HI STERCORIUS. I was in Russian class, trying to describe a character from a movie...
January 16, 2015
“Humiliating People With Addiction Is Not Treatment”: Molly Fogel
at Substance.com: I could fill volumes with all that I saw. There were other situations...
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