Saturday Good Reads

Sylvia Schroeder and her husband have three grandsons. She’s discovered that when the “feet-a-saurus,” aka Grandpa, arrives to visit the boys, they scream in delighted terror. Who know grandpas could behave like this? Read “What’s Wrong with Grandpa?” 

I know the English Victorian writer Wilkie Collins as (1) the author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone and (2) the good friend and often collaborator of Charles Dickens. But he was also the author of several lesser-known classics, including Basil, No Name, Jezebel’s Daughter, and The Evil Genius. Steve Goble at has the story at CrimeReads. 

 

Chris Thomas has a son who’s almost a teen. The boy has had a rough go from the get-go; his brain was damaged by an alcoholic mother when she was pregnant. Every night, he and the boy play a game of hide-and-seek. And Dad talks about what he’s learned about hiding.

 

More Good Reads

 

Poetry

 

The Tango Argentine – Daniel Kemper at Society of Classical Poets.

 

Stained-glass Man – Donald Catchings at An Unexpected Journal.

 

Mysterious Encounters in Life and Art: A Conversation with Dana Gioia – Caitlyn Doyle at Literary Matters.

 

Life and Culture

 

Let It Be: Have we passed the golden era of the rock ‘n’ roll memoir? – Alexander Larman at The Critic Magazine.

 

The Miseducation of America’s Elites – Bari Weiss at CityJournal.

 

Celebrities Don’t Get Enough Love – Seth Lewis.

 

The Campus as Factory – Jacob Howland at CityJournal.

 

Recovering Old Age – Joseph Davis and Paul Scherz at The New Atlantis.

 

Maoism in America? The Uses of the Capitol Hill Riot – Habi Zhang at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

Writing and Literature

 

The middle ground of fiction – John Steele Gordon at New Criterion.

 

Balancing Productivity and Art – David Farland at My Story Doctor.

 

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marilynne Robinson – Kevin Brockmeier at Literary Hub.

 

Faith

 

The Dangers of Doomscrolling – Jeff Mingee at The Gospel Coalition. 

 

The Luck O’ the Hobbit – Keith Mathison at Light in Dark Places.

 

Uprooting Evil in the Fields We Know – Griffith Gulledge.

 

The Gospel Animated: The Greatest News in the World in 2 Minutes – Justin Taylor at The Gospel Coalition.

 

The Numbing Down of the Church: Part One. The Dung Beetles – Larry Chapp at Gaudium et Spes 22.

 

His Reaction When She Sings: Allie Sherlock and Cuan Durkin sing “Unchained Melody”

Painting: Man Reading a Newspaper (1941), oil on canvas by Russell Drysdale (1912-1981).