Podcasts
A Good Story is Hard to Find
A Catholic podcast about popular books and movies. A podcast where Julie Davis and I discuss books and movies we love as well as themes of belief, faith, and the “one reality” below the surface.
The Shelf Wear Podcast
A podcast I ran for about a year on this site where I invited friends to participate in book and story discussions. I enjoyed every episode! Click the graphic above to get to the episodes.And occasionally I’m a guest on:
The SFFaudio Podcast
The Reading Envy Podcast-
“The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises toward ever wider horizons!”
— St. Pope John Paul IIThe cartoon icon of Saint Pope John Paul II was created by Micah at Thy Geekdom Come.
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Review of Pavane by Keith Roberts
Pavane by Keith Roberts 285 pages Originally published in 1968 How to describe Pavane? Two things are simple to say: first, it’s a fix-up novel, or a mosaic. A collection of stories set in the same universe that are brought … Continue reading
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger A lot of things didn’t go well in 1968. Senior Time Magazine writer Jeffrey Kluger (author of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13) … Continue reading
Incognita, Inc. by Harlan Ellison
After watching King Kong for the 455th time, Harlan Ellison wondered about the maps. After wondering, he wrote “Incognita, Inc.” In hundreds of adventure movies, there’s always a map of some strange, lost land. In Muslim mythology it’s Kaf, the … Continue reading
“A Walk in the Sun” by Geoffrey A. Landis, from Infinivox
Written long before Andy Weir’s The Martian, “A Walk in the Sun” by Geoffrey A. Landis gives us a science fiction survival story a bit closer to home. Trish Mulligan is the last one alive on the moon after crash … Continue reading
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“‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison
One of my most treasured books is my The Top of the Volcano hardcover, a complete (at the time of publication, 2014) collection of Harlan Ellison’s award-winning stories published by Subterranean Press. It’s a beautiful book and the content… well … Continue reading
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The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
I re-read “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu yesterday. Find it here, at Clarkesworld. What a wonderful story that is. It brings “Animal Farm” by George Orwell to mind for obvious reasons – anthropomorphic animals … Continue reading
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From Decision Points by George W. Bush
I re-read some of this book (published in 2010) this weekend, and am reminded of the perspective of President Bush during the time following 9/11. He describes being given the badge of someone who died when the towers fell, and … Continue reading
Happy Catholic by Julie Davis, An Appreciation
This is not so much a review of my friend Julie’s book, but an appreciation, for her book is exactly my kind of thing, and appreciate it I do. As I re-embraced Catholicism years ago, there were stumbling blocks. One … Continue reading
Charles van Doren and Science Fiction
Julie and I talked about the movie Quiz Show in our last Good Story podcast, and I brought up how Charles van Doren was connected to Thomas Merton and Mortimer Adler. What I did not know was that Charles van … Continue reading
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
I learned a couple of important things from Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. First, I’m a lightweight when it comes to sports fanaticism. And second, I need to suffer a lot more before I’m allowed to complain about Liverpool. The first … Continue reading