Saturday Good Reads - Oct. 2, 2021

Last month marked the 700^th anniversary of the death of Dante, and there have been all kinds of reading groups, programs, articles, and poems written in homage. Poet Paul Mariani blends Dante with a remembrance of an important teacher and talks at Church Life Journal about the art of translating the great poet. 

Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative was reading The Lord of the Rings, and discovered something most readers do not: he identified with Gollum.

 

What do you do when the news is so depressing, and you feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? Isabel Chenot at Story Warren found herself often sobbing on her couch, until she realized there was something she could do – carry a candle.

 

More Good Reads

 

American Stuff

 

The Baleful Comet of Boston: Samuel Adams & the Puritan Republic – M.E. Bradford at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

The Four-Legged Veteran of 58 Battles – Emerging Civil War.

 

Americans with a Shared Future Meet at the Stamp Act Congress – Tom Hand at Americana Corner.

 

In nine images: A visit to historic St. John's Episcopal Church – John Banks’ Civil War Blog.

 

Faith

 

The Intimacy of Language – Greg Doles at Chasing Light.

 

I Searched for the Key to Discipleship – Melissa Edgington at Your Mom Has a Blog.

 

The Tale of the Pig and the Sheep – Tim Challies.

 

Love the Real, Not the Ideal – Al Gooderham.

 

Art

 

An Afghan artist's life under the Taliban: burning art, deleting social media accounts and living in hiding – Sarvy Geranpayeh at The Art Newspaper.

 

Life and Culture

 

What Comes After the Failure of Technocracy? – Stephen Okey at Church Life Journal.

 

Canary in the cultural coal mine: Lionel Shriver on cancel culture – Robin Ashenden at The Critic Magazine. 

 

Poetry

 

‘My Lips Have Kissed Her’ and 'When Sorrow Comes' – David Irby at Society of Classical Poets.

 

The True Love – David Whyte via Maria Popova at Brain Pickings.

 

Writing

 

How to Add a Layer of Fear to Your Fiction – DiAnn Mills at CrimeReads.

 

How to Write Cinematically – Roy Peter Clark at Literary Hub.

 

Shadows in the Sky – Mike Oblinski 

Painting: Young Woman in White Reading (cicra 1873), oil on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).