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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
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.
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.