The series concludes with a visit from the author, Ron Hansen. Thanks to any and all who joined in!
Incidentally, Hansen has a piece on the question of ethics and historical fiction, a question that was at least touched upon in the course of our discussion, here.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Wow.
So proud of you and JOB, Matthew, on your postings this week. Ya’ll smoked ’em.
I really tried not to comment as I am still finishing this book…definitely not the page- turner of “Hitler’s Niece” that kept me up all night. Hey, I’m a mom, yadayadayada…
Anyway, I couldn’t help myself on the last day. The artist and the art are separate.
Shouldn’t we be cheerleading a practicing Catholic who is so well-respected in the arts community? He’s a friend of Brad Pitt’s, for pete’s sake.
Anyway, well done, boys(..That includes Rufus.)
Thanks much for reading and for commenting, Lindsay! I hope that this week’s effort was the best sort of cheerleading – there is implicit praise in the fact that we spent a week talking about the book, and plenty of explicit praise as well, even if it wasn’t all sunshine and lollipops…
It was Yee-Haw!
I was speaking about some of the other comments in the thread.
I finished the book last night. My opinion of it has gone way up–although I’m still not sure I’d call it a novel. More like an imaginative essay or creative non-fiction. A hybrid, really. But the best sort of work–in that love for his subjects was obviously a large motivating factor for the author. I loved how Hansen, in a way, worked side by side with Hopkins, to bring the obscure nuns up out of obscurity. And at the same time Hansen brought Hopkins further out of obscurity and into the light; which is a good thing. I often had the feeling that Hopkins and the five nuns were smiling down from heaven at what Hansen did. More anon over at Korrektiv, just as soon as I peruse the Inside Catholic discussion more carefully.
Ditto Rufus.
I guess, as a gal, I am really loving the motivations of the women and the stories behind their vocations.
the 2nd half of the last paragraph on pg 53 is one of my favoritte passages…
“…She’d watch them shamble away liked yoked bullocks and she’d wonder why they found the greater freedom of men such a burden.”
yoked bullocks…love it.
Rufus,
Thanks, and looking forward to it!