Assault on Huberman
Kerry Howley at New York Mag
Biography
George MacDonald: Grandfather of Middle Earth?
Fantasy literature wasn't even "a thing" until George MacDonald came along. Timothy Larsen flushes it out.
One of my favorite "browsing books" is C.S. Lewis' Anthology: 365 Readings of George MacDonald writings.
I've also long believed that the fiction of
Something Tells Me I’d Really Enjoy the Private Letters of Two Men I Didn’t Even Know Existed
It helps to be aware of one’s ignorance.
That’s one reason I like to read Joseph Epstein, who wrote a delightful essay for the current issue of the new Catholic journal, The Lamp that brought my level of awareness to the brim.
The topic?
The letters of George
"Introducing a Person Who Needs No Introduction . . ."
My inadvertent love affair with book introductions. Plus a dozen introduction recommendations.
A Few Great Charles Bukowski Quotes
His headstone features a graphic of a boxer and the Zen-inspired epitaph “Don’t try.”
A Magisterial Appreciation for a Magisterial Effort: Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan
Nathan Payne at The Lamp
John McClaughry: Underappreciated Man
Bill Kauffman at The American Conservative
Charles Bukowski's L.A.
Loren Kantor at WritingAndTyping (Medium)
Why You Should Care about Gene Wolfe
He's the author of Book of the New Sun, which is massive but which I just finished and which is incredible, full of implicit Catholic theology, Greek philosophy, and mythology. Some of his biggest literary influences were Chesterton and Tolkien.
He's also a convert, whose conversion
Don't Crowd Me
A few years ago, I went to my local high school's first home football game.
Afterwards, I was exhausted. I mean, absolutely exhausted, like I had lead around my shoulders. I'd had a hard week at work, but the level of exhaustion was something else.
I