STRUCK BY THUNDER: GOD GIRL’S INTERVIEW HAS GONE LIVE Journalist Angela Pancella‘s lengthy Q&A with Cathleen has just been posted at Steve Beard’s fabu pop-culture-and-spirituality site, Thunderstruck. You can read it HERE. Read more

HAIKU: A TRIBUTE TO THE PERFECT FOOD vernal gold pillowsshrouded lusty seed treasure fig newton, release Read more

TGF SHOUT OUTS FROM JAMAICA (PT. 1), KANSAS (AGAIN!), AND MORE BLOGGY LOVE … We’ve been remiss, we realize, in updating The Dude for a few days, whilst busy making arrangements for the upcoming New York trip. Please forgive us… Last weekend, Mark Dawes, religion reporter for the Jamaica Gleaner, published the first of a two-part interview he did with our God Girl after her reading at the Calabash Festival in Treasure Beach a few weeks back. You can find... Read more

BREAKING NEWS: MOBY AND GOD GIRL IN THE BIG APPLE!!! We here at God Girl HQ are so excited to announce the following that we’re even a little lightheaded: At 7 p.m. Thursday, June 29, at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in NYC, everybody’s favorite Jesusy vegan and musical mastermind MOBY will join Cathleen for a LIVE GOD FACTOR INTERVIEW and book signing. God bless his sweet, generous heart! Hope to see you there.In the meantime, we’re going to... Read more

TGF ODDS AND ENDS: NEW REVIEWS, NEW NEWS It’s been a hectic couple of weeks and I’ve missed posting a few very kind notices from papers hither and yon recently. Angela Pancella wrote a nice short review of the book for Cincinnati’s CityBeat that ran June 7 and a longer interview Angela did with me should be posted any day on Steve Beard’s Jesusy pop culture site, Thunderstruck. Here’s Angela’s review: All Lit UpCATHLEEN FALSANI — THE GOD FACTOR: INSIDE... Read more

THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD . . . Thank you, Mister Gawker! Read more

3:30 P.M. TODAY AT THE PRINTERS ROW BOOK FAIR: GOD GIRL READS, DISCUSSES, SIGNS … Along with author (and Wheaton College prof) Nicole Mazzarella, God Girl will read from and discuss her new book, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People, at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Chicago’s Printers Row Book Fair, inside Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn. Followed by a signing. Please come and say hello! Read more

GODSTUFF: ‘THE NATURAL PRAYER OF THE SOUL’: POETRY The moon had risen over the shores of Treasure Beach hours before the poet ascended the bamboo podium and began to read. An occasional lazy breeze stirred the otherwise balmy torpor of the Jamaican night. But the crowd of hundreds gathered to hear poet Kwame Dawes read was wide awake, as he spun a tale of tornadoes — the human kind. I am a tornado child, you can tell us from far,... Read more

CALABASHMENT: “MIX BUT DON’T BLEND IN” A much more thorough recounting of what was one of the most extraordinarily rewarding professional experiences I’ve had as a writer — as a participant in the 2006 Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaica — is forthcoming. Promise. In the meantime, here is a smattering of photos (most taken by the multitalented Maurice Possley (aka Mr. God Girl) from the three-day festival. One love! POET KWAME DAWES INTRODUCES THE NON-FICTION KIDS: Born... Read more

GREETINGS FROM CALABASH 2006: A LITTLE PIECE OF LITERARY HEAVEN Ah, bliss. Had I known this is what the literary life could be like, I would have written a book 15 years ago. Walking into Jake’s resort here at the wonderfully pristine Treasure Beach on Jamaica’s quiet southern coast was like dropping through a rabbit hole and winding up in a tropical Wonderland. Color. Everywhere.Waves crashing on the coral shoals a few feet from the veranda . . . a... Read more