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Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
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Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
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San Diego Reader
The Stranger
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Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
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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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Well, beggar my belief!
There’d be a risk — a big risk — of creating something cocooned so thickly in its own esoteric mythology that it would lose its connection with, and relevance to, the actual factual non-fictional world, and so lose its reason for being, BUT: Lives of Famous Catholics could conceivably create its own internally-consistent ‘secret history’ of famous Catholics. That is, the fictionalized elements of one story could carry over to another. Lady Gaga could buy Mel Gibson’s [real] Costa Rican estate, discover the [fictional] Oberammergau costume in the chapel, and incorporate said costume into her act.
The trick to doing this right, I think, would be to make any such crossover references absolutely inessential to understanding or enjoying the story. They would be totally incidental, marginal details, to be spotted or not by people who’ve read the other stories.
So consider this comment a throwaway thought about throwaway details.
Something to save for the collected edition.
Summer crossover event!
That’s the spirit.
The property is really the movie rights to II Macabees.
Could be a pip.
God’s finger is on you, Matthew.
‘Thank you, your honor!’
It is a fearful thing to fall under the finger of the living God.