Tag: Robert Fay
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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…
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Why I Won’t Read Joan Didion’s “Blue Nights”
I was late to the party when it came to reading Joan Didion. For years I had the vague sensation that Didion wasn’t for me. It was one of those unapologetic prejudices people have for certain writers, a prejudice that ended when I picked up a copy of The Year of Magical Thinking. It was…
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My Essay in ‘The Millions’
I recently published an essay on the online literary site The Millions titled, “Paris, Wikipedia and My Middle Age Crisis.” Each man’s middle age crisis begins at an indeterminate age and offers a peculiar window into the architecture of masculine decline. In this respect it mimics death, which is both punctual and ruthlessly efficient in…