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Nick Ripatrazone

Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Esquire. His newest book is Ember Days, a collection of stories.

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Articles By Nick Ripatrazone
Arts & Culture Books
Review: To hell and back
Nick Ripatrazone February 13, 2019
A comprehensive new book takes us all the way through Hell.
Arts & Culture Books
Time’s a’wastin’: two new books on procrastination
Nick Ripatrazone January 10, 2019

“Anyone can do any amount of work,” wrote the American humorist Robert Benchley, “provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” Procrastination is an act of will, the choice to postpone what needs to be done.

Photo of John Cheever from AP
Arts & Culture Books
John Cheever’s sad Christmas story is ideal Advent reading
Nick Ripatrazone November 30, 2018
The simultaneous pull of love and sadness is pure Cheever and permeates his Christmas story.
Arts & Culture Books
Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ argues that to write is to be political
Nick Ripatrazone October 24, 2018
At a moment when reporters are being criticized from all sides, 'The Quiet American' feels painfully prescient.
Faith Features
Close Encounters: A priest and a mysterious U.F.O. sighting
Nick Ripatrazone July 27, 2018
In 1949, a priest with a searchlight spotted something puzzling in the sky. The mystery remains unexplained.
Arts & Culture Books
The spiritual curiosity of Traci Brimhall
Nick Ripatrazone April 24, 2018
In Brimhall’s work, Catholicism is a faith that marries the sensual and the sacred.
Lionello Fabbri/SCIENCE SOURCE
Arts & Culture Art
Andy Warhol goes to the Vatican
Nick Ripatrazone January 30, 2018
The Vatican Museums and the Andy Warhol Museum are finalizing a dual exhibition of Warhol’s religious works in Rome.
Faith Faith in Focus
The humbling spirituality of (bad) fishing
Nick Ripatrazone January 09, 2018
My fishing life has been a series of snagged lines and broken dreams.
Artist and underground filmmaker Andy Warhol poses with one of Polaroid's new film cameras, the Polavision camera, which features instant replay on television screens, Feb. 1, 1978. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
Arts & Culture Media
A Catholic Media Trinity: Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and Andy Warhol
Nick Ripatrazone December 27, 2017
Their Catholicism was not incidental to their theories and their art; it was their structure, their spirit and their sustenance.
Arts & Culture Television
How the freaks of “Stranger Things” let the transcendent become real
Nick Ripatrazone October 30, 2017
The everyday and the fantastical continue to live side by side as show enters second season.