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SupplementalistBONUS EPISODE! Spirit of LiteratureSend us a textHappy New Year! Well 16 days late. We take our time here at the Supplementalist, well our audio editing guy does - come on Steve! Today is a bonus episode to kick off the new year. We will get back to our regularly scheduled programing next week. This week we have a special episode were we are looking at an article from an organization called Public Discourse. This particular essay is from Joshua Hren with the title of "The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature” You can find the article here
2025-01-1644 min
Spe Salvi Institute PodcastMichel Houellebecq’s “Annihilation” with Joshua Hren and Trevor C. MerrillIn his provocative new novel Annihilation, celebrated and controversial French author Michel Houellebecq brings readers to a France in 2027, grappling with economic collapse and moral decline. In this episode, novelists Joshua Hren and Trevor C. Merrill join the podcast to dive into Houellebecq’s darkly insightful world, exploring why he is hailed as one of the most perceptive writers of our time.
2024-12-081h 12Spe Salvi Institute PodcastThe Novel and the Real with Joshua Hren
In this episode, we are joined by novelist and critic, Joshua Hren, to discuss his new novel Blue Walls Falling Down. The novel has already received much praise. Publisher Angelico Press describes the novel as follows:
“Written with a style and sensibility that have been compared to David Foster Wallace and Dostoevsky, James Joyce and Saul Bellow, Blue Walls Falling Down chronicles the eternal questions that agitate our subterranean frequencies and demand more than the human spirit can give or answer alone."
In addition to discussing the novel, Andrew and Joshua explore the place of the...
2024-10-0758 min
Criteria: The Catholic Film PodcastWildcat does justice to Flannery O'Connor's faith (w/ Joshua Hren)Joshua Hren, editor-in-chief of Wiseblood Books, joins the podcast to review Wildcat, the new Flannery O'Connor biopic directed by Ethan Hawke and starring Maya Hawke and Laura Linney. The film is a respectful and nuanced portrayal of O'Connor and her faith, accomplished by extensive quotation from her prayer journal and letters, as well as several interludes depicting her short stories (which keeps the film from feeling like a formulaic biopic). Wildcat's portrayal of the relationship between artistic ambition and faith is deeply relevant to Catholic artists. It should inspire them to find creative ways of d...
2024-05-241h 25
Read More, Read WellA Closer Look Episode: Literature and the Moral ImaginationIn this Closer Look Episode, we feature an interview between Marcie and author and publisher Joshua Hren about how literature can help form our moral imagination, and why that is so important.
Find out more about Joshua Hren and his work on his website and through his publishing house Wiseblood Books.
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2024-02-1614 min
LydwineJack of Cups, Part Two…Before we left New England, I went out into the yard and dug up the bones of our family cat, a black cat, hit by a car and killed some three or four years earlier, afterward wrapped in an old bath towel and laid to rest beneath the day lilies crowded outside our dining room window. When it came time to move we didn’t feel right leaving him behind, not knowing who might move in next and disturb him, disinter him, digging in the wet black earth – it might as well be us. So when we drove to Alabam...
2023-09-2257 minLydwineJack of Cups, Part One…Christianity is a true crime religion. At its heart are scandal, treachery, and murder. Strange to think that we the people would ever turn away from Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, given the proclivities, the bloody entertainments, so beloved in this bloody land…. On the one hand, the Good God of the Universe - the Three-In-One, the One-In-Three – Maker and Destroyer of Worlds, condescended to shame among His creatures, with a brow to welcome thorns, with hands that did embrace the violence of the nail… In opposition, the peril implied by man as a rational creature, by the gift of love...
2023-09-081h 15
The Catholic Culture PodcastHighlights: Cultural appropriation, ugly beauty, English poet-martyrs, Polish cinemaLooking back at highlights from past episodes of the Catholic Culture Podcast and Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast. Full episodes below: CCP Ep. 63—Beauty Revealing Being (Vision of the Soul Pt. II)—James Matthew Wilson https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-63-beauty-revealing-being-vision-soul-pt-2-james-matthew-wilson/ CCP Ep. 69 - The Poetry of the English Martyrs - Benedict Whalen https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-69-poetry-english-martyrs-benedict-whalen/ CCP Ep. 70 - The Flannery-Haunted World - Joshua Hren https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-70-reviving-catholic-literary-tradition-joshua-hren-john-emmet-clarke/ Criteria - Dekalog: One (1988) https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/dekalog-one-1988/ DONATE to make...
2023-08-091h 13
Evangelization & Culture PodcastThe Art of Catholic Publishing w/ Joshua HrenWhat happens when a young writer with a graduate degree finds himself out of work, out of money, yet insatiably hungry for purpose? If you are Joshua Hren, you launch Wiseblood Books, a burgeoning publishing company that champions creative, award-winning fiction of great sublimity and Catholic sensibility. Join us as we explore the art of Catholic publishing with Dr. Joshua Hren. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Culture Podcast biweekly on WordOnFire.org, on YouTube, or on your favorite podcast hosting platform. Get more content like this in the quarterly print journal of...
2023-08-081h 16The Catholic Culture PodcastLet's Get Real - Joshua HrenJoshua Hren, author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, editor-in-chief of Wiseblood Books, and co-founder of a new Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, returns to the podcast to discuss his recent essay, Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto: As ever, but especially in our present age of raging post-truth unreality, we ought to heed Pope Benedict XVI’s summons to “ask rather more carefully what ‘the real’ actually is.” So-called “realism,” when relegated to material tangibilities, can blind us—instead of binding us—to things as they are. “Are we not intereste...
2022-08-191h 08The Catholic Culture PodcastThe Novel against Nihilist Groomers - Joshua HrenJoshua Hren returns to discuss his debut novel, Infinite Regress. "In the years since his graduation from St. Marquis University, Blake Yourrick has fled his family and Milwaukee, rotating from job to dead-end job—working the Bakken oilfields in Dakota and even signing on as the night caretaker of a rural abbey graveyard. Deep in student debt and estranged from his misanthropic, alcoholic father, Blake is haunted by the memory of his mother’s death—and by his relationship with his college mentor, a defrocked priest named Theo Hape, who is known for his adventurous theological ideas as well...
2022-06-301h 20
A Drink With a FriendWhy is Tsh Catholic? (part 1)Both Seth and Tsh became Catholic just a few years ago, as adults after a lifetime of being Protestant. Why? ...That's the question they get asked by many of you ALL the time. In this episode, they dip their toes in the water of answering this massive question that doesn't have just one answer, focusing first more on Tsh's journey. (This will likely be an ongoing series, peppered throughout other chats...) Seth: Newsletter | WebsiteTsh: Newsletter | WebsitePick up a round of drinksCome to Italy with us — $250 off when you register by May 31, 2022!Our re...
2022-05-2754 min
Cross WordCatholic Literature with Joshua HrenSend us a textCatholic literature is on fire these days. Catholic publishing houses, press, and journals are booming. Join me in conversation with Dr Joshua Hren, one of the founders of the University of St Thomas at Houston Master of Fines Arts programming in Creative Writing--a series of comprehensive seminars in the Catholic literary and intellectual tradition. Dr Hren is also the founder of Wiseblood Books and the author of Infinite Regress published by Angelico Press and Contemplative Realism; A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto The Benedictine Institute .Wiseblood Books https://www.wisebloodbook...
2022-04-1937 min
Read More, Read WellWhy Literature Matters and "How to Read (and Write) like a Catholic" - an interview with Joshua HrenHighlights include:
When is a book ok to read? Discerning the line
If I'm scrupulous, should I even read literature?
What is the possibility of restoring the Catholic literary tradition?
Are you concerned with classics or worthy books being canceled in our current culture?
Why do we need literature?
Joshua Hren is the founder and publisher of Wiseblood Books, perhaps the most distinguished and ambitious small literary press of our day. He has published two collections of short stories, "This Our Exile" and "In the Wine Press," as well as "Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Goo...
2022-03-1650 minThe Catholic Culture PodcastIs realism in modern fiction an aberration? w/ Joshua HrenIn this outtake from episode 113, Thomas asks writer and editor Joshua Hren whether the turn to realism in modern fiction, a historical anomaly, is also a problem from a religious and philosophical point of view. Episode 113, Can a Novelist "Create" a Saint? https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/113-can-novelist-create-saint-joshua-hren/ This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like the show, please consider supporting us! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio
2021-09-0214 minThe Catholic Culture PodcastCan a Novelist "Create" a Saint? - Joshua HrenIn his new book How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic, fiction writer and editor Joshua Hren lays out an approach to Catholic literature that spans all the way from St. John Henry Newman called “a record of man in rebellion” to the other end of the continuum, which is a representation of the Beatific Vision. Topics discussed include: How important is beauty to fiction? Will beauty save the world? The importance of particularity; Carmelite vs. Ignatian views of imagination Newman and Augustine on the uses, limitations, and dangers of indulging sentiments about fictional characters Can the acti...
2021-08-261h 07
Ethics and Culture CastEpisode 56: Joshua HrenJoshua Hren is the founder and publisher of Wiseblood Books, author of "How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic," and cofounder of a new MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas that focuses on the Catholic imagination. He has presented at the de Nicola Center's Fall Conference.Special Guest: Joshua Hren.Links:How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic — How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic is a sweeping survey of some of the finest literary works ever written by our fallen and yet redeemed race. Joshua Hr...
2021-06-1750 minThe Catholic Culture PodcastBecoming Cultured Without a Bow Tie - James Matthew WilsonPoet-philosopher James Matthew Wilson returns to the show to read poems from his new collection, The Strangeness of the Good, including his "Quarantine Notebook" series, and to discuss the decay and renewal of Catholic intellectual life. Topics discussed include: The present narrowing of Catholic intellectual life in conservative/traditional circles How do you become cultured, in an authentic and non-pretentious way, when you’re not participating in a culture? His ideal approach to reciting poetry The poets we most need to be reading now What needs to be done to build on...
2021-04-051h 34
2021-02-2425 minThe Catholic Culture PodcastThe Flannery-Haunted World - Joshua Hren, John Emmet ClarkeThis episode features two young Catholic publishers who are doing cutting-edge work to preserve and carry forward the Catholic literary legacy, building on the accomplishments of the great Catholic writers of the 20th century in particular. The first guest is Joshua Hren, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wiseblood Books. Wiseblood's focus is on cultivating and publishing new works that maintain a high standard of literary quality and Catholic vision: featuring up-and-coming writers alongside established successes like Dana Gioia, Samuel Hazo, James Matthew Wilson, and Michael O’Brien. Besides introducing us to the Wiseblood catalogue, Joshua talks ab...
2020-03-241h 52