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A Narcissus at Christmas: Received: The Complete Guide to Middle Earth

A Narcissus at Christmas: Received: The Complete Guide to Middle Earth

Robert Foster: The Complete Guide to Middle Earth. My sons pooled their money to buy me this deluxe edition of Robert Foster’s classic Middle Earth reference book. I’m not even sure where they found it, but it’s a beautiful book. After opening it, I said, “Wow, I

A Narcissus at Christmas: Received: The Eighth Day Book Catalogue

A Narcissus at Christmas: Received: The Eighth Day Book Catalogue

The 23rd Eighth Day Books Catalogue. The retail price says “$7,” but the link says “$5.50.” It’s worth it either way. It came out in 2020, and my youngest daughter was pretty disgusted with Marie when it came in. “This is all I’m giving him?!?!” Marie assured

A Narcissus at Christmas: Received Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems

A Narcissus at Christmas: Received Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems

Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems

Three Things We Know About the Amazon LOTR Series

Three Things We Know About the Amazon LOTR Series

As long as I'm "on a Tolkien kick," I might as well mention that the Amazon series is apparently delayed due to COVID. People were estimating a 2021 release date, but now it appears it'll be late 2021 or early 2022. In the course

Looking for a Book Curator?

Looking for a Book Curator?

If you hadn't noticed, there are tons of books out there. It can be hard to find new stuff that's also "reliable" (whatever that means). I highly recommend Eighth Day Books out of Wichita, Kansas. They're devoutly Greek Orthodox and "reliable&

What's Joe Epstein Been Saying?

What's Joe Epstein Been Saying?

A few choice passages from The Ideal of Culture (2018) and Gallimaufry (2020) The perennial need to be on the cutting edge: "Orwell wrote that liberals fear few things more than being outflanked on the left." Writing about his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, which was

Nock Summary

Nock Summary

Re: Albert Jay Nock's Our Enemy, the State. I think this minor classic boils down to a handful of points: 1. State power comes at the price of social power. If the state will take care of something, then people won't. As social power collapses, so

Tuesday

Hey, Pope Francis and I have something in common: admiration for Dostoyevsky and Guardini [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/what-pope-francis-has-to-say-about-dostoyevsky-and-guardini-76130/?utm_source=hootsuite] . I went on a major Fyodor kick in my twenties. I read all his major works (except The Idiot, which, for some reason, I could never penetrate)

Tuesday

A great distinction In his meditations on the growing tension and eventual war between the North and the South, Orestes Brownson favored the South's “personal democracy,” which he contrasted with the North's “humanitarian democracy.” The South's personal democracy recognized the individual's freedom

Tuesday

If you didn't hear this neat piece of news: > The new Flannery O'Connor stamp. http://t.co/JS9V5RnI2d pic.twitter.com/lerrbXaiRv [http://t.co/lerrbXaiRv] > — David Scott (@DScottLA) May 28, 2015 [https://twitter.com/DScottLA/status/603798782992605184] "Award-winning American author and devout