Tag: catholic writers

  • Writing, Making Money & Raising Kids – How It’s Done

    There are times when I’ve found myself skimming through The Paris Review interviews and hoping the interviewer would stop being profound and ask the writers more pedestrian questions about their early writing life: How did you make a living in the beginning? What was your writing routine? How did you write every day and make time…

  • Newsweek’s “The Daily Beast” Chimes in on My Recent Essay

    Andrew Sullivan, who writes the popular “The Dish” column on Newsweek’s “The Daily Beast” website, mentioned my recent essay on Catholic writers in The Millions. The title of his post is “The Poetry of the Latin Mass.” Sullivan writes: “Robert Fay wonders why there aren’t great contemporary Catholic writers like Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and…

  • Critic Maud Newton Recommended My Essay On Catholic Writers

    The noted literary critic and blogger Maud Newton recommended my essay on Catholic writers in The Millions. She wrote: I recommend Robert Fay’s essay about the end of the Latin Mass — and Catholic “drama of salvation” novels — even though I strongly disagree that “the Christian faith [has] been in full cultural retreat since…