In America Magazine, a personal essay about my desire to get an annulment of my first marriage, and the mix of healing, confusion, and frustration that followed. Read more at America Magazine.
At Chapter 16, the literary magazine from Humanities Tennessee, a new personal essay reflecting on my friendship with Dennis Wilkins, who died 30 years ago when we were both 19 years-old. Read more at Chapter 16. alt=”website header”/>
Walking with Ignatius By Arturo Sosa, SJ in Conversation with Darío Menor At Today’s American Catholic, a review and reflection of the new book, Walking with Ignatius, by Arturo Sosa, SJ in Conversation with Darío Menor. Read more at Today’s American Catholic.
At Today’s American Catholic, a review and reflection of Fr. James Martin’s new book, On Learning to Pray. Read more at Today’s American Catholic.
In “An Idea” Magazine at Medium Culture, an exploration of the connection between the HBO show, “The Undoing,” and an obscure 1963 essay by Pietro Di Donato.
In Chapter 16, a review of Against the Current: Paddling Upstream on the Tennessee River (University of Tennessee Press) by Kim Trevathan.
In America Magazine, a review of Aaron J. Leonard’s new book, The Folk Singers and the Bureau, which draws from almost 10,000 pages of F.B.I. files on an array of folk artists in order to illustrate the considerable impact that the U.S. government’s campaign against Communism had on folk artists in the 1940s and early ’50s. Read more at America Magazine. Image: Folk singer Pete Seeger entertaining at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by…
The 1918 Flu Epidemic in Pietro Di Donato’s Novel ‘Three Circles of Light.’
In America Magazine, a review of Lynn Casteel Harper’s contemplative work of nonfiction on dementia and Alzheimers, On Vanishing. Read more at America Magazine.
In the Italian American Literary Journal Ovunque Siamo, a reflection on the early (and ongoing) influence of a De LaSalle Christian Brother on my education and love of the arts and humanities. Read more at Ovunque Siamo.