Faith and Fiction: The Story Behind the Story (of a Story)
Sean Murphyi. True story: my sister, during her junior or senior year at Boston University, called to talk about what I didn't yet realize was a classic college cliché, disguised as…
O’Connor and Coltrane: Saints of American Art
i. I never, until this year, made the explicit connection between John Coltrane and Flannery O’Connor. Why should I have? One was an introverted white woman, a southern writer who…
Wishing For Eternity So Dick Cheney Could Spend It In Disgrace (Revisited)
I'm not sure what it says about me, but I've gone on record declaring, at times, a fervent wish that there was a God. Because if there was a God,…
Wishing For Eternity So Dick Cheney Could Spend It In Disgrace
I'm not sure what it says about me, but I've gone on record declaring, at times, a fervent wish that there was a God. Because if there was a God,…
R.I.P. Barbara Billingsley, Sit-Com Mom Emeritus
I don't know about calling her "America's mom", as I'm sure many obituaries will claim, but she was inarguably the "sitcom mom". It's funny. My peers and I (born in…