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“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel

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By Jessica Hooten Wilson In Book Reviews

For Good Mothering Advice, Skip the Mommy Blogs and Look to Christ

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By Jessica Hooten Wilson In Book Reviews

Review of Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante’s Purgatorio

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Book Reviews

Review of Michael Moore’s translation of The Bethrothed

Titled "A Masterpiece Novel That Should Be an Instant Classic" An excerpt: "Not knowing much about Manzoni, I was delighted to hear of his powerful conversion story in the introduction. Moore explains how this writer, having absorbed the philosophy and art of Romanticism, then turned…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 8, 2023

Interviews Podcast & Radio Interviews

Guest on Englewood Review of Books with Karen Swallow Prior and Jen Pollock Michele

This episode is all about celebrating and reading great literary works. Jen is joined by first-time guest Jessica Hooten Wilson, as well as repeat guest Karen Swallow Prior, who are both outstanding guides through the world of classic literature. They discuss the value of great…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

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Totalitarianism and Literature with Michael Matheson Miller on the Moral Imagination Podcast

In this podcast, Michael Matheson Miller and I discuss how both violence and entertainment and distraction are tools of state control. We discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, some of the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of Butterflies about…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

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Guest on “The Slow Work” by Sandra McCracken

Episode coming soon. Listen to the show here.

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 27, 2023

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Thinking Outside the Box with Andy Crouch

If you wonder about the importance of the humanities in Christian Higher Education, watch this conversation between Andy Crouch and I. Andy and I discussed ways we might innovate to increase the love of liberal arts from children to adults. It doesn't really matter if…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJanuary 7, 2022

Articles & Essays Talks & Lectures

Virtual Book Club | The Brothers Karamazov

In this lecture series on The Brothers Karamazov, Dr. Hooten Wilson introduces readers to Dostoevsky's life and its influence on his greatest novel. By watching this lecture series you will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of this great text. Think of this as a…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 23, 2021

Interviews

“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel

What happens when an iconic author leaves behind an unfinished work? In this insightful interview, Jessica Hooten Wilson dives deep into Flannery O’Connor’s final, incomplete novel. Jessica discusses the challenges of interpreting O’Connor’s work and the “difficult work of digging” into its themes of grace,…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 16, 2024

Book Reviews

For Good Mothering Advice, Skip the Mommy Blogs and Look to Christ

Review of Natalie Carnes’s Motherhood: A Confession, Christianity Today (May 2020) An excerpt: Mothers today face an onslaught of mixed messages about how best to parent in the 21st century. Podcasts, blogs, and books on mommy-ing abound, but many of them indulge regularly in shallow…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 17, 2023

Book Reviews

Review of Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante’s Purgatorio

Titled "Reading Dante with a Bang" An excerpt: "It seems that anyone who translates The Divine Comedy must be a presumptuous ass of one kind or another. Yet, Sayers herself translated the fourteenth-century Italian poem because “all great works should be retranslated from time to time, lest…

Jessica Hooten WilsonFebruary 15, 2023