Brian Patrick Eha
Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Essayist, journalist, author, critic | CUJ grad | Tweeting literature, history, ideas | Connecting dots | Essays upcoming on Celan, Emerson, Malaparte, the moon
Articles
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1 month ago |
city-journal.org | Brian Patrick Eha
A little after six o’clock in the evening on April 15, 2019, the Monday before Easter, while Mass was being celebrated, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris caught fire. Incompetent security staff initially failed to locate the blaze (up a narrow flight of 300 steps in the main attic); for half an hour, the medieval church burned out of control before the fire department was called.
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2 months ago |
city-journal.org | Brian Patrick Eha
In any age, the significant individuals tend to be those who invent or seize upon a new means, a new medium, a new method, a fresh voice or device, and embody or exercise or exploit it to the fullest.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
firstthings.com | Brian Patrick Eha
About one-third of the way into Nick Cave's Southern Gothic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989), the false prophet Abie Poe leads a congregation of three hundred souls in a blackly comic parody of baptism. Urged on through a downpour, the maddened throng fetches up at a “cloacal sump” of sewage-polluted swampland, into which the mad evangelist bids them plunge and be purified.
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Jun 1, 2024 |
city-journal.org | Brian Patrick Eha
At midnight on Christmas Day, 1910, a sleepless legal clerk of the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague was chastising himself for the state of his writing desk.
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May 14, 2024 |
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Brian Patrick Eha |Dennis Hale |Jeffrey Anderson |Helen Andrews
They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no humanrace is. I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places. —Robert FrostPicture Cormac McCarthy in Ibiza.
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Nostalgie de la boue. Everywhere I look: nostalgie de la boue.
Few novels meet this standard for capturing the male experience and psyche like James Salter's "A Sport and a Pastime." Love, jealousy, obsession—it's all there. The hunger to be a man of substance, the desire for solitude warring with the need for communion. Plus gorgeous prose. https://t.co/1jNRbIDc5Q
my girlfriends + I always discuss how Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet truly captures the female experience + psyche. just gets under the skin of what it is to feel love, jealousy, obsession as a woman. has me thinking - which books do this best for the male experience?
It's always sad when the world loses a Brian. The loss of Brian Wilson is especially so.
