Beautiful Minds
Beautiful Minds…Bringing You the Good, the True, and the Beautiful through Authors Past & Present is a radio program I created with Peter Chol and Chris Griswold. Some of the episodes are available here:
Literary Converts by and with Joseph Pearce
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Humane Vitae, Bl. Pope Paul VI
G.K. Chesterton
Chuck Chalberg who portrays G.K. Chesterton
Dr. Peter Kreeft, Author & Professor of Philosophy
J.R.R. Tolkien
Joseph Pearce
Dale Ahlquist, Author & President of American Chesterton Society
Kevin O’Brien of Theater of the Word
Some say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but I say that books are!
These authors continue to inspire me. Enjoy reading any or all of the following:
Dale Ahlquist – www.chesterton.org
Hervey Allen– Anthony Adverse
Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice, Emma
Maurice Baring – The Puppet Show of Memory
Alan Bloom – The Closing of the American Mind
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
G.K. Chesterton – www.chesterton.org
Charles Dickens – David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, Our Mutual Friend
Dr. Anthony Esolen – Out of the Ashes, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization, etc.
Elizabeth Goudge – Green Dolphin Street
Mitchell Kalpakgian – The Mysteries of Life in Children’s Literature
Russell Kirk – The Roots of American Order
Daniel McInerny – Kingdom of Patria
A.A. Milne – Winnie the Pooh
Andrew Lang – Red Book of Fairy Tales, (Yellow, Blue, Green, etc.)
Thomas More – The Sorrow of Christ
Erik Metaxas – ErikMetaxas.com
Joseph Pearce – St. Austin Review – The Quest for Shakespeare, Beauteous Truth, Race With the Devil, Solzhenitsyn, etc.
Walker Percy – Thanatos Syndrome
Fr. James Schall – Another Sort of Learning
Alexander Solzhenitsyn – First Circle, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipeligo
Robert Louis Stevenson – Master of Ballantrae, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
J.R.R. Tolkien– Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, etc.
Mark Twain – The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Sigrid Undset– Kristin Lavransdatter (trilogy)
Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Importance of Being Earnest