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- RT @frference: “Dear God please help me to be an artist, please let it lead to You.” - Flannery O’Connor 🦚👩🏼🎨 (Prayer Journal, 29) 5 days ago
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Category Archives: Comedy
Nerd Do Well, by Simon Pegg
Nerd Do Well, Simon Pegg. Century, 2010. 368 pages. “It was never my intention to write an autobiography. The very notion made me uneasy. You see them congesting the bookshop shelves at Christmas. Rows of needy smiles, sad clowns and … Continue reading
A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh This edition: Back Bay Books, 1999. Written 1934. 320 pages. The first text message I ever received from my mum read: “Just finished Brideshead. So depressed.” I laughed out loud in the middle … Continue reading
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible, by Jonathan Goldstein
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible, by Jonathan Goldstein Riverhead Trade, 2009. 256 pages. If you are looking for pious hagiographies of Old Testament saints (and one from the New), look further. Goldstein’s little book of stories, portraits of biblical characters … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Fiction, Meditations, Saints
Tagged Jonathan Goldstein, New Testament, Old Testament
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If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino (William Weaver, trans.) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. 260 pages. Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler abandons traditional storytelling in its first lines, entering the realm of metanovel: … Continue reading