Lots of people walking around the Milwaukee lakefront with binoculars looking at warblers. #Milwaukee #Birdwatching

A week from today, I hope to see friends Literati Bookstore in #AnnArbor .

Thursday, May 9 - 6:30pm

Literati is pleased to welcome back author Jon M. Sweeney in celebration of the release My Life in Seventeen Books.
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I used to ask the cats to stay off the dining room table, imagining their thinking…

'The nice man who feeds us doesn't want us on the Table in the middle of the Garden. We'll at least stay off of it while he's looking.”

91st anniversary of the The Catholic Worker.

Author Jon M. Sweeney in conversation with David Dault is editing today (He, His) about 'My Life in Seventeen Books' at Seminary Co-op #Chicago May 8.

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The cartoonist makes it look like this is only true for politicians.

Every leader of a nonprofit I’ve ever met. And it’s not necessarily a bad idea.

The everydayness of it. The banality of it.

I'm thrilled to be interviewing Ethan Hawke on May 3, along with David Gibson, after the NYC premiere of WILDCAT. The private screening is sponsored by Fordham University University's Curran Center & Fordham Center on Religion and Culture
Fordham Press
Paraclete Press
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A note about copyright and publishing law:

If Beyoncé has written you a bunch of letters, you own the letters, but the copyright is very much Beyoncé’s.

Writers, may the Spirit grab you today.

God bless chametz. Our dinner post-Passover.

I really need to pin this one to my profile.

Thoughtful piece about the protests on college campuses, published in Living City magazine of the Focolare movement. Focolare Media
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We start tomorrow! You can still join us.

Currently reading

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Remember that? Those were the days.

Vendor of Books, Dublin, painting by Walter Osborne

The new issue of Living City magazine publishes tomorrow. Our theme is 'Civic Hope in a Time of Division.'

If you subscribe, your copy has hopefully arrived. Here are the first 2pp of my editor's letter and the complete contents.

Starting the day with an elegant 'Q'(uoniam) at the beginning of Luke's Gospel.

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 4451; Gospel Book; 9th century; Mainz; f.79r Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

This number is hugely important for understanding both religion and politics in America today.