The Sparrow

I've been reading The Sparrow , by Mary Doria Russell . It's a captivating novel about a Jesuit-funded mission to contact newly-disc...

Flannery O'Connor: The "crippled hillbilly Emily Dickinson"

It's nice to know I have people who read my blog, but even better is to know they are smart folks thinking through complex ideas even wh...

Books for the new year

Happy New Year everyone! Like every book lover I know, I've got a towering (and growing) pile of books waiting to be read. I thought I...