"Voices of Power and Passion: the Best U.S. Catholic Writers" by Brian Doyle appeared in the recent issue of Liguorian Magazine.
Let's cut right to the chase. A handful of U.S. Catholic writers and
books and essays and poems and songs are absolutely indispensable.
These creative works should be required reading and/or listening for
every man, woman, and child in the motley and miraculous clan of
Catholic-works like most of Flannery O'Connor's stories and Willa
Cather's lean, taut, perfect novel Death Comes for the Archbishop and
Andre Dubus' last essays about Eucharist and forgiveness and painful
love and all of J. F. Powers' extraordinary stories and Thomas Merton's
riveting poem "Original Child Bomb" and Paul Wilkes' modern classic In
Mysterious Ways: The Death and Life of a Parish Priest and Annie
Dillard's stunning For the Time Being and Alice McDermott's exquisite
novel Charming Billy and...
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