Looking Closer
The Auralia Thread is complete, and The Ale Boy’s Feast will arrive in bookstores everywhere in mid-March. But not everybody will have to pay for them… (more…) Read more
The Auralia Thread is complete, and The Ale Boy’s Feast will arrive in bookstores everywhere in mid-March. But not everybody will have to pay for them… (more…) Read more
Download the prologue and first chapter of The Ale Boy’s Feast from the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group website… here. Read more
“The Ale Boy’s Feast is a great, sprawling poem. Its rich language moves and breathes and awakens every sense. Jeffrey Overstreet has made something beautiful here. His story reminds us that beauty is an agent of grace.” —JONATHAN ROGERS, author of The Charlatan’s Boy “Jeffrey Overstreet writes like Van Gogh painted. He is a literary impressionist, and his understated yet vivid narrative style overwhelms the imagination. The Ale Boy’s Feast does more than just tell the end of a story;... Read more
“The Ale Boy’s Feast is a great, sprawling poem. Its rich language moves and breathes and awakens every sense. Jeffrey Overstreet has made something beautiful here. His story reminds us that beauty is an agent of grace.” —JONATHAN ROGERS, author of The Charlatan’s Boy “Jeffrey Overstreet writes like Van Gogh painted. He is a literary impressionist, and his understated yet vivid narrative style overwhelms the imagination. The Ale Boy’s Feast does more than just tell the end of a story;... Read more
As my interest in football continues to diminish (due to the increasing evidence about the severe damage that the players do to themselves and one another during a typical game), I’m only really paying attention to event peripheral to the Super Bowl. Here are a couple of links worth checking out: (more…) Read more
Today, I noticed Scott Derrickson posting this link on Twitter. It’s a link to an article by Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead, contesting the claims of Richard Dawkins. So, of course, I had to drop everything and read it. Then, when I posted the link on Facebook, a friend answered with this quote from Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins … (more…) Read more
If you’d like a free, signed copy of… … before the book arrives in stores, here’s what you should do: (more…) Read more
Exposing the latest exhibition of the ignorance that pollutes so much of the material published at Movieguide, Steven Greydanus published this article about The Rite and Movieguide’s review of it. (more…) Read more
This review was originally published at Good Letters, the blog hosted by Image, in December 2010. • In Rio de Janiero, there’s a saying that even Jesus turns his back on the poor. In a way it’s true. Early in Lucy Walker’s documentary Waste Land, a helicopter carries us around Christ the Redeemer, a white statue towering over Rio, arms outstretched embracing the wealthy of Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. Behind it, we descend into the world’s largest landfill—Jardim Gramacho. (more…) Read more
Huh. Once in a while, my opinion of a movie aggravates other reviewers I really respect. That seems to have happened with The Fighter. Over at artsandfaith.com, there’s been quite a long debate about the film. And now, today, my thoughts were quoted in an unexpected place. (more…) Read more
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