Nick Ripatrazone
@nickripatrazone
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Books: https://t.co/ZDQu52CRf6 / Writing: Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, + Esquire / Contributing Editor @CatholicHerald / Culture Editor @Image_Journal
Bobcat Alley, NJ
Joined May 2013
My new book, The Habit of Poetry, reviewed by @MayaCPopa in the Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS: ‘well-researched, skillfully argued study…Ripatrazone balances illuminating contextual information and biography with a strong selection of excerpted poems’.
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“There would be no Cædmon the poet was it not for a nun”, Nick Ripatrazone writes early in his gripping survey of the contributions made by nuns to
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RT @McLinstitute: “What if he’s right?”.Tom Wolfe, .1965. “Turns out he was right.”.@nickripatrazone .@Slate .2025. .
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He was laughed out of academia for this take about the internet. Turns out he was right.
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For @Slate: I wrote about Marshall McLuhan and his fear of how tech would make us discarnate. We should heed his warnings.
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He was laughed out of academia for this take about the internet. Turns out he was right.
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RT @BulwarkOnline: "The book offers a self-critical, exactingly honest story of family, ambition, and class. No one remains untouched here,….
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John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about fathers and sons.
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RT @jesuitnews: Join @nickripatrazone for an online seminar on Faith & Doubt in the Catholic Literary Imagination at the Jesuit Media Lab,….
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RT @amjuster: “ 'Let Me Tell You What I Love.' Remembering Fanny Howe" by @nickripatrazone:. via @lithub.
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“My Irish mother used to say to me, ‘You’re a tinker. You make a little mess and move on.’” I can’t help but think of Fanny Howe, gone at 84, through her mother’s perceptive words. Howe was a…
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RT @jesuitnews: Join @nickripatrazone for an online seminar on Faith & Doubt in the Catholic Literary Imagination at the Jesuit Media Lab,….
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Starting 9/15, I'm teaching an online seminar on Faith and Doubt in the Catholic Literary Imagination at the Jesuit Media Lab (@jesuitnews), co-sponsored by @commonwealmag. All participants get a one-year subscription to the magazine. Join us!.
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In the Catholic tradition, writers, artists and theologians have wrangled with doubt. In this course, we will join that essential tradition.
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Today is as good a day as any to talk about Faulkner, death, and journeys—with @heymiller.
New Great Books show: "As I Lay Dying," by William Faulkner, with special guest star @nickripatrazone
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One of the creepiest stories I’ve ever reported—and a Nobel Prize winner makes a surprising appearance.
Early in the 20th century in the bustling neighborhoods of Chicago, word spreads that the Antichrist has been born. Using newly uncovered archival material, this is the never-before-told true story said to have inspired Rosemary’s Baby.
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RT @Jack_ElHai: Was the Antichrist born in #Chicago?. An extra Halloween article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for read….
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Early in the 20th century in the bustling neighborhoods of Chicago, word spreads that the Antichrist has been born. Using newly uncovered rare and unpublished archival material, this is the never-b...
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RT @hauntedmagazine: A fascinating article from @nickripatrazone about when Dylan Thomas started writing a new short story. He wrote to a f….
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Late in 1933, Dylan Thomas started writing a new short story. “The theme of the story I dreamed in a nightmare,” he wrote to a friend. “If successful, if the words fit to the thoughts, it will be o…
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RT @lithub: “I am filled with the terror which is the beginning of love. They tell me space is endless and space curves. And I understand.”….
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Late in 1933, Dylan Thomas started writing a new short story. “The theme of the story I dreamed in a nightmare,” he wrote to a friend. “If successful, if the words fit to the thoughts, it will be o…
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When the poet Dylan Thomas was 19, he was possessed by an idea that had started as a nightmare. My latest for @lithub .
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Late in 1933, Dylan Thomas started writing a new short story. “The theme of the story I dreamed in a nightmare,” he wrote to a friend. “If successful, if the words fit to the thoughts, it will be o…
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RT @jasonguriel: Hard to believe that three Robert Frost classics--"Birches," "The Road Not Taken," and "The Sound of Trees"--all appeared….
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“Birches,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “The Sound of Trees”
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RT @NEHgov: 2022 recipient Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, educator, and writer uplifting Chicano and Latin American culture. He was the….
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