Hearty Musings

Dispatches from St. Louis.

Peter J. Leithart » Too catholic to be Catholic

Well-said.

1 week ago

Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer - NYTimes.com

I knew coffee was good for me.

1 week ago

New video for the first single from “Leonard.”

Ever and Always - Andrew Osenga, from the album “Leonard the Lonely Astronaut” (by andrewosenga)

The name of the activity by which readers and writers communicate—by which they make the private experience of reading into the common enterprise of literature—is criticism.

Adam Kirsch, Why Trilling Matters

#10 Economy : (by Johnmarkmcmillan)

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011) (by senguntr)

This Oscar-winning short is one of the most moving things I’ve seen in a long time.

Guided Missiles- The Cuff Links (by kenzeetwo)

How bout this fascinating little bit of Cold War culture?  Try to ignore the terrible video.

Faulkner’s “A Fable” Outline (by Maud Newton)
Faulkner wrote the outline to A Fable on the wall of his study.  That’s what we call a literary badass.

Faulkner’s “A Fable” Outline (by Maud Newton)

Faulkner wrote the outline to A Fable on the wall of his study.  That’s what we call a literary badass.

Criminal Minds: Secular Rationality and State Worship : the church and postmodern culture

Yo,  I have a short article/blogpost up on The Church and Postmodern Culture blog at The Other Journal.  Check it out!

7 months ago - 7

Notice the featured article on Wikipedia, today, October 14, 2011.

Today Good Books is meeting for the first time, and we’re discussing In Our Time. Freaky.

7 months ago - 2