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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Samuel Kronen |Jessica Wilson |Nick Catoggio
Intellectual earworms, stand-up comedy, and chinchilla farms. Published March 22, 2025 Join Jonah Goldberg on a journey up the Northeast Regional line as he ruminates upon the impeachment of federal judges, the enemy within, the world’s laziest Congress, and the chicken and the egg game for oligarchs and plutocrats. Plus: disturbing DOGE casualties and a greatest hits reel of Jonah’s analogies.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jessica Wilson |Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Williamson |Peter C. Meilaender
Society & Culture The Southern writer has a depth that's hard to find today. Published March 22, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. A hundred years after the birth of Flannery O’Connor, her South, as well as the rest of America, is less “Christ-haunted,” as she once phrased it.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
shu.edu | Jessica Wilson
James Daly, of Educational Studies, and Jessica Wilson, of the Global Learning Center, invite members of the Seton Hall community to consider sharing their stories through their joint project: “Telling Our Stories: Perspectives on Topics of Global Interest.” Conceived of the idea that everyone has a story to tell, the project aims to engage students—through people’s conversational sharing of their experiences—and enable them to understand how others’ lives can differ from ours as they...
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May 3, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Jessica Wilson
In 2009, Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories was named the best book ever to receive a National Book Award. It had been almost 50 years since O’Connor died at 39 years old of lupus, yet her work was still being read and publicly celebrated, chosen above such esteemed writers as Alice McDermott, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, and so forth. Now in 2024, a year before her centennial, a feature film is being released on Friday that focuses not only on O’Connor’s fiction but also on her life.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jessica Wilson |Christian Wiman |Jacob Wright |Julia Watts Belser
Jessica Hooten Wilson. Brazos, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-58743-618-5In this worthwhile if flawed study, Wilson (Reading for the Love of God), Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University, contextualizes Flannery O’Connor’s little-known third novel, which was left unfinished at the time of her 1964 death.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Jessica Wilson
For the great Russian writers, wonder was the pathway to freedomWonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson. Belknap Press, 2023. 512 pp., $37.95If you’ve ever wondered how Russia could produce such literary giants as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy yet succumb to villains like Lenin or Stalin, then Gary Saul Morson has written the book you’ve been looking for.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
jessicahootenwilson.substack.com | Jessica Wilson
When I was a child, I painted. I thought I’d become an illustrator for my own books. During college, I put painting and drawing to the side as hobbies and focused on learning the craft of writing. Most of my classes were geared to writing or reading, and I got pretty good at it. In graduate school, I studied the art of writing and reading further, becoming more and more proficient. Meanwhile drawing and painting dwindled to a rare, neglected pastime.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Jessica Wilson
On March 1, 1957, CBS televised Flannery O’Connor’s short story The Life You Save May Be Your Own, starring Gene Kelly and Agnes Moorehead. In the original story, a one-armed handyman named Mr. Shiftlet agrees to marry a woman’s handicapped daughter if he can keep her rundown car. Not caring much for the civil union, he abandons the girl in a bar and drives away to face the fury of God, symbolically spinning toward him in a tornado.
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Jul 9, 2023 | 
ekstasismagazine.substack.com | Jessica Wilson
This Weekend Edition of Ecstatic is by Sara Kyoungah WhiteJessica Hooten Wilson is the inaugural Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University and the author of several books, most recently Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as Spiritual Practice.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
plough.com | Jessica Wilson
The BBC aired Dorothy L. Sayers’s drama about the life of Jesus Christ, The Man Born to Be King, beginning on December 21, 1941. On that same day, three submarines – British, Dutch, and German – were torpedoed and sunk, the Japanese invaded the Philippines, and the Germans began murdering inmates at Bogdanovka concentration camp in Ukraine.
