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

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

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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

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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

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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

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The Truth about Happiness

As an undergraduate I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for the first time. Sitting in the metal desk with its foldable table, my pen ready, my book open, and a fresh page in my spiral notebook, I was prepared to glean wisdom from my professor on this classic…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 27, 2018

Articles & Essays

Has “Freedom” Lost its Ring?

What to do when the leader of the free world expresses envy and admiration of an authoritarian dictator? Following the North Korea–United States summit, President Trump said of Kim Jong-Un, “He is the head of a country, and I mean he is the strong head. . . . He…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJuly 2, 2018

Articles & Essays

Living as an Ex-Suicide

"The only cure for depression is suicide.” Walker Percy was not joking when he penned this line. The author himself was a survivor of suicide—though he did not attempt it. His grandfather and father both shot themselves at home; his mother either intentionally or not…

Jessica Hooten WilsonJune 15, 2018

Interviews

Interview with the Deep South Magazine

Reading Walker Percy on the Beach by Erin Z. Bass An interview with Jessica Hooten Wilson about her new book Reading Walker Percy’s Novels, a companion guide to the intellectual Southern writer. Louisiana writer Walker Percy considered novels the strongest tool with which to popularize great…

Jessica Hooten WilsonMay 18, 2018

Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative announces $15.6M in new grants to 33 institutions

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

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

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

Review of Michael Moore’s translation of The Bethrothed

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

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

Guest on “The Slow Work” by Sandra McCracken

Thinking Outside the Box with Andy Crouch

The Truth about Happiness

Has “Freedom” Lost its Ring?

Living as an Ex-Suicide

Interview with the Deep South Magazine

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