The Awl asks, “Why are we so terrible at contacting aliens?” Carl Sagan is mentioned. Walker Percy is not. Language and intelligence are discussed. Pity the author didn’t present at the Percy Conference. It would have been a lively Q&A.
In other news, The Sparrow sounds absolutely terrifying.
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.
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Bob Dylan
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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
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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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That (passage about The Sparrow) is the spoiler of all spoilers. No need to read the book now!
It may be for the best anyway because that book left an image in my mind that is both horrific and inescapable.
AMDG
You’re right about the spoiler and the image. I just spent some time reading writing about The Sparrow, and I think I need to take a walk in the sunshine for a while. Do you think I should take the link down?
Sunshine is definitely called for.
I don’t know whether you should or not. I read that book several years ago after seeing it recommended by Amy Welborn. It’s probably the book I most wish I’d never read. Some friends of mine, however, didn’t seem as trouble by it as I was.
AMDG