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Jon M. Sweeney
Jon M. Sweeney is a frequent contributor to America and the author of many books including Francis of Assisi in His Own Words and, for children, The Pope’s Cat series, illustrated by Roy DeLeon.
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Epistolary Treasures: The vanishing art of letter-writing
There have been many famous letters and letter-writers in history One thinks immediately of Cicero who made it an art form Then of course we have St Paul who filled his letters to early Christian communities with advice and doctrine news from the front and occasional scoldings One also thin
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A Traveling Man
Travel has been around since Adam and Eve were forced to leave the Garden of Eden Noah built an ark and Abram also on God rsquo s instructions took a look at all of the land before his eyes Travel writing was invented by Homer and Virgil and the Synoptic Gospels may have helped revive the genre
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Background Check
Two new books on Pope Francis; neither can be considered a true biography.
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Buy This Book: Navigating uncharted waters in 21st-century publishing
I recently traveled to the London Book Fair, and I stayed in Bloomsbury, the area in central London that over half a century ago was the heart of British publishing. Over the course of four days I visited the crisp and well-appointed London Review of Books bookshop across from the British Museum, as
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Waugh’s Head Revisited: A writer who deserves to be remembered
“Nobody ever wrote a more unaffectedly elegant English,” a critic once wrote of Evelyn Waugh.
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Travels With Graham
Graham Greene has had more malevolent biographers than anyone is due.
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Signs of ‘Life’: Wonderful lessons from the Capra masterpiece
Frank Capra’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ offers a profound understanding of the Gospels.
