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Nick Ripatrazone

Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Esquire. His books include Ember Days, a collection of stories and Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction.

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Articles By Nick Ripatrazone
Faith Features
The single life is a sacred vocation—and it’s more fulfilling than our culture leads you to believe.
Nick Ripatrazone November 19, 2020
A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.
Arts & Culture Books
The art of book reviewing
Nick Ripatrazone November 19, 2020
If you think being a writer is nerve-wracking, try being a reviewer.
Faith Faith in Focus
Contemplating creation through the lens of a wildlife camera
Nick Ripatrazone July 29, 2020
Bobcats, bears, foxes, hares, deer, raccoons, birds and the occasional coyote: Each day we capture wildlife on our trail camera, and my twin daughters continually become more entranced by animals.
Pictured from left: Mary Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., Jessica Powers (Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit) and Madeline DeFrees (Mary Gilbert, S.N.J.M.) (photos: Saint Mary's College archives/Wikipedia/Madelinedefrees.com).
Arts & Culture Poetry
The Nuns Who Wrote Poems
Nick Ripatrazone May 15, 2020
In the mid-20th century, several women religious were writing and publishing ambitious poetry.
Faith Faith in Focus
With my daughters at home for school, I am finally getting a Catholic education
Nick Ripatrazone April 20, 2020
I am getting a window into the daily lives of my daughters, and I truly understand what my wife has always told me: Catholic schooling has defined her view of the world.
Members of the cast of ABC's 1997 show "Nothing Sacred." 
Arts & Culture Ideas
Revisiting ‘Nothing Sacred’ : A show about gritty parish life we could use today
Nick Ripatrazone February 21, 2020
The television series about an urban Catholic church was groundbreaking, and there has been nothing like it since.
Arts & Culture Television
A skeptic and a believer team up on CBS’ ‘Evil’
Nick Ripatrazone September 20, 2019
It is a great set up for a television series—and yes, the comparisons to Scully and Mulder are warranted.
Arts & Culture Books
Review: A tragic story of ambition and despair
Nick Ripatrazone July 26, 2019
"An Orchestra of Minorities" is a profoundly tragic story of ambition and despair and how both come from the struggle to love.
Arts & Culture Television
Jordan Peele’s ‘The Twilight Zone’ is ready to make Americans think again.
Nick Ripatrazone March 29, 2019
Jordan Peele’s incarnation of the show will certainly get people thinking—and talking.
Arts & Culture Books
Review: To hell and back
Nick Ripatrazone February 13, 2019
A comprehensive new book takes us all the way through Hell.