The End of Reading
Jessica Hooten Wilson on reading for the love of God.
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Jessica Hooten Wilson is transitioning to a one-year Scholar in Residence appointment at the University of Dallas where she will teach in the Humanities and Classical Education program. She is most recently the author of Reading Walker Percy’s Novels and can be reached through her website for book, article, lecture, interview, and podcast requests.
Articles
Cormac McCarthy, Cultural Memory, and the Mythopoesis of Fire
Jessica Hooten Wilson on carrying the fire.
Love's Wounds: Both a Gift and a Challenge
Jessica Hooten Wilson on The Five Wounds.
O'Connor or Robinson: The Gargoyle and the Cathedral
Jessica Hooten Wilson on two writers that differ as much as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
An Experiment in Criticism of the Literary Canon
Jessica Hooten Wilson on expanding the canon rather than pruning it.
The Mind of a Mother and Maker
Jessica Hooten Wilson on the legacy of Dorothy L. Sayers.
Awakening from Digital Slumbers
Jessica Hooten Wilson on books that bring us to life.
Percy and Pence and the American Sense of Scripture
Jessica Hooten Wilson on Christian nationalism's slips of the tongue.
Gratitude as a Virtue
Jessica Hooten Wilson on being thankful even for fleas.
Bodying Forth the Classics: A Manifesto
Jessica Hooten Wilson on leaving the academy but staying with literature.
From a Consumerist Death, Deliver Us O Lord
Jessica Hooten Wilson on the consumerist evasion of mortality.
A Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Asks: Has It Happened at Last?
Jessica Hooten Wilson on Walker Percy's fiction and the experience of catasrophe.
Flannery O'Connor Versus the Marvel Universe
Jessica Hooten Wilson presents an alternative universe of un-American virtues.
All This Useless Beauty
Jessica Hooten Wilson discusses the countercultural power of beauty.
Santa Is Real, But He's Dead (to the World)
Jessica Hooten Wilson reminds us of the otherworldly life of the real St. Nicholas.
The Unoriginal Augustine
Jessica Hooten Wilson on René Girard, Augustine, and the great art of imitation.
C.S. Lewis's Mixed Bag of Tangents and Asides
Jessica Hooten Wilson defends the strange composition of Surprised by Joy.
Protestant Fiction Needs the Catholic Imagination
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at John Brown University, shares some ideas on how to improve Protestant fiction.
The Chief Target of the New Totalitarianism
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Literature at John Brown University, introduces the struggle between the family and the soft totalitarianism.
Pushing Back Against Marilynne Robinson's Theology
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at John Brown University, pushes back against Robinson's Emersonian theology with the help of Flannery O'Connor.