Monday, February 26, 2018

But may just want to read …

… R.A. Lafferty: "The Greatest Catholic Novelist You Never Heard Of" - Benedict XVI Institute. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

So yes, Lafferty is at last getting his due as a great writer in all but one crucial way: as a Catholic novelist. Most of Lafferty’s elite fans like him despite the fact he was Catholic. They don’t yet grasp what the cranky old man from Tulsa really meant with his electric sentences and blood-drenched tales.

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