Articles on writing (general):
- Joseph Conrad’s Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus. (This is quite simply one of the most beautiful meditations ever written on the art of writing.)
Articles from a wide variety of viewpoints on the subject of the nature and writing of Catholic fiction:
Writing Catholic Novels/Fiction / Catholic Novelists
- “Sex, Death and Christian Fiction” by Simon Morden
- “A Different Discipline: The American Catholic Novel” by Gerald Russello
- “On Being a Catholic Writer” by Ralph McInerny
- “The Catholic Novel: Fact or Fiction?” by Peter Quinn
- “The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 by Ian Ker.” Reviewed by Francis Phillips.
- “Fiction and Propaganda,” by Carl Olson.
- “Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Catholic Writer in the Modern World” by Gregory Wolfe.
- “The Modern Catholic Novel in Europe, by Theodore Fraser,” reviewed by Joseph Cuneen
- “Catholics and Science Fiction.” Ignatius Press interview with Sandra Miesel.
- “Really, Really Dark: Inventing the Catholic Novel” by Stephen Schloesser, S.J.
- “The First American Catholic Novel“
- “The Return of the Popular Catholic Novel?” Robert O’Brien
- “The Lunatic in the Pew” Alice McDermott
- “Literature and Spirituality” Michael O’Dwyer
- “Wrestling with the Angel of Strangeness” by Debra Murphy
- “Polluted Protagonists and the Enduring Appeal of a Catholic Imagination” Mark Ravizza, S.J.
- “John McGahern’s The Barracks: an interpenetrative Catholic Novel” Jean-Michel Ganteau
- “What Makes a Novel ‘Catholic’?” George Weigel
- “The Greats Make a Comeback” George Weigel
Catholic Novelists and their Work:
- “Catholic Novelists” Christopher Kent
- “Graham Greene, The Major Novels: A Centenary” Kevin McGowin
- “Novelist is a Rare Voice in Catholic Literature.” Article from the NationalCatholic Register about Ron Hansen.
- “Waugh Revisited” James Hitchcock
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