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June 2016

June 14, 2016

Don’t Medicalize My Eschaton (or, What If Addiction Isn’t a Thing?)

Three blind men are feeling around with their hands, trying to determine what's in front...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

“Amends” reviewed by Rachel Manija Brown

author of All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: ...The prose and dialogue of Amends...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Double Review: My Reality-TV Rehab Novel, Gil Fagiani’s Rehab Survivor Poetry

reviewed by Jendi Reiter: ...Logos is a collection of persona poems set at a heroin...

April 20, 2016

Amoris Laetitia: Pregnancy Counseling, Penitence, And Pudding

my take at First Things: Philip Larkin lamented that whether or not anybody refills your...

April 01, 2016

A Principal, A Senator, And Two Stories of Second Chances

I'm esp struck by the role of Christian faith in both of these pieces. Nancy...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

“A Paleocon, An Otherkin, And a Saint Walk into a Bar”: Kate Havard

reviews my novel--and gets off some great lines of her own in the process: Eve...

February 24, 2016

“What Could Possibly Be Wrong With Christian Masturbation?”: I’m at Christianity Today

with exegesis of Black Swan and The Babadook, and some stuff about shame and confession:...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

“Too Much Reality”: Martyn Wendell Jones reviews my novel

at the University Bookman: Eve Tushnet’s self-published debut novel Amends is at full gallop out...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

“Discipline and Rupture at Christmas”: I read Foucault

for AmCon: There are authors whose work so permeates our intellectual atmosphere that by the...

December 20, 2015

“You Are Bigger Than Even Your Biggest Mistake”: My friend Steven Christoforou

on St Dionysios of Zakynthos and the freedom of forgiveness: as you can tell, Steve...

December 09, 2015

“The End of Hitting Rock Bottom” and My Actual Most-Unpopular Opinion

This is a very good article from the Boston Globe (h/t Maia Szalavitz, whom you...

December 02, 2015

Oscar Wilde, AA, and Pope Francis on Gay People…

...or, Every day is self-parody day. I did a couple speaking engagements recently (book me!...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

Pascale Monnin, An Artist of Haitian Resurrection

Over the weekend I discovered a new artist: the Swiss-Haitian painter and sculptor Pascale Monnin....

November 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Meeting Your Kidnappers, Keeping Mothers Out of Prison, Putting Cops in Schools, And Gullah Amends

Most of these links have a theme of "aftermath," I guess. "What Happened After My...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

“My Side of the Confessional: What Is It Like for a Priest?”: LifeTeen

w/a very touching piece--last anecdote is esp striking: I was once riding in a shuttle-bus...

October 10, 2015

“The Night I Outran My Demons”: A British Doctor

check out the tags on this article...: Looking back over my 29 years as a...

October 10, 2015

Why the Long Face? I Watch “BoJack Horseman”

for AmCon. This piece could have been twice the length--I have a lot of feelings...

October 08, 2015

“St Maria Goretti in Sing Sing”: A Real Thing That Happened

w/very moving photo: The #PilgrimageofMercy, the tour of the major relics of St. Maria Goretti...

October 02, 2015

“Empathy Lessons for the App Generation”: Mockingbird

writes: ...Turkle here is indicating that there is a strong connection between empathy and solitude....

October 02, 2015

“On Abstaining from Communion”: Poignant, Funny Post from Max Lindemann

on a recurring theme here: ...As the episode with the baffled usher illustrates, some people...

October 02, 2015

“In Your Guts, You Know You’re Nuts”: Mockingbird Reviews My Novel

woohoo! In her hilarious first novel, Amends, just released this past August, Eve Tushnet brings...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

Link Round-Up for “Amends,” My New Novel About Reality-TV Rehab

First of all, you can buy the book and I would be quite grateful if...

September 18, 2015

I Watch “Mistress America,” The New Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig Flick About Women’s Friendship

for AmCon: One of the weirder trends in today’s art is the rise of a...

September 09, 2015

“I Reviewed Jail on Yelp Because I Couldn’t Afford a Therapist”: The Marshall Project

with many and varied windows into the human condition: ...User-review sites have become an unlikely...

September 06, 2015

It Always Rains on Ben Affleck: Short Movie Reviews

The Leopard: Burt Lancaster is the patriarch of an aristocratic Sicilian family whose role in...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

The Kindle Version of My Novel, “Amends,” Now Available: Mysticism, Sleaze, Good Times and Bad Advice

You can purchase it (or the paperback, if you prefer books for mammals): A month...

August 17, 2015

“Amends,” My Novel About Reality-TV Rehab, Is Available in Paperback

now! A month in rehab would be stressful enough without a television audience. When the...

August 04, 2015

A Vindication of the Rites of Whores: Rumer Godden’s “Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy”

When I asked people to recommend books about life in religious communities, this (as well...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

Photographs from Miracle Village, A Florida Town for Sex Offenders

The Guardian writes: ...Sofia Valiente, a quietly spoken 24-year-old photographer who lives one hour’s drive...

July 12, 2015

“Let’s Talk About Monks, Baby”: More of My Dialogue w/Justin Lee on Relationships for Gay Christians

at Respectful Conversations: I loved a lot of things about Justin's first contribution to this...