What Is Creative Non-Fiction?
In recent weeks I’ve had a few people ask me about the term creative nonfiction and how it is different from other, presumably “non-creative” nonfiction. Alice LaPlante offers this definition […]
What Is Creative Non-Fiction?
In recent weeks I’ve had a few people ask me about the term creative nonfiction and how it is different from other, presumably “non-creative” nonfiction. Alice LaPlante offers this definition […]
S2: Ep35: Vesper Stamper
I talk with Vesper Stamper, illustrator and author of A Cloud of Outrageous Blue. We discuss how illustration became for Vesper a doorway into storytelling, what her research into the Middle Ages […]
Looking Like a Dog
Last week I got a puppy. In preparation for the blessed event, I read a book by Alexandra Horowitz called Inside of a Dog: What Dogs Smell, See, and Know. If […]
S2: Ep34: Gina Dalfonzo on Dorothy and Jack
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I talk with Gina Dalfonzo about her new book, Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis. We discuss the often overlooked […]
Realism of Presentation, Realism of Content
In An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis puts a finger on one of the things I love so much about Tolkien, though Lewis is not specifically talking about his good friend […]
S2 Ep33: Daniel Darling Has a Way with Words
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I speak with bestselling author, pastor, and podcast host Daniel Darling about the complex mix of motivations that go into online interaction, the double-edged sword […]
Bookishness and Tookishness
I often run across articles and interviews in which published writers are asked the one piece of advice they would give to young and aspiring writers. The most common advice […]
S2 Ep32: Christine Flanagan on Flannery O’Connor’s Mentor
We often think of Flannery O’Connor as a lone genius. But her genius was shaped by a (now) less well-known writer named Caroline Gordon. Christine Flanagan, English professor at the University of […]
Recovery, Escape, Consolation: Tolkien On Fairy Stories
In preparation for Writing with Hobbits, I’ve been reading Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories,” in which he makes a case for his kind of fantasy. It gets pretty technical, but there are […]
S2 Ep31: Sandra McCracken
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I talk with singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken. Wee talk about the formative power of hymns, the ancient balance established by the psalms between lament and a […]