Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
[Apropos of the October season, here is another selection from Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), available for order here
Continuing our discussion from last week concerning the role of romance (or lack thereof) in those Sunday Morning moods, we now flip genders to consider
[The following is excerpted from the Introduction to Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). If you are a college librarian,
It appears that every missionary gets the pop-song they deserve. When my Dad was serving in England in the early-’70s, every trunky elder he told
You don’t have to have a relationship on the rocks to wake up with that Sunday morning mood, but it definitely doesn’t hurt. More often
If you served your mission anywhere in or near the Bible belt in the early-aughts, you heard all about Bruce Almighty. Contacts and investigators would
It almost feels like cheating to put Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” on a playlist about feeling down on a Sunday morning–it’s just too
With apologies to Gil-Scott Heron You will not be able to stay home-centered, brother and sistersYou will not be able to just check off your
For our second entry in songs for those morose Sunday mornings when the Tab choir just won’t cut it, we start with Ben Folds’ “Jesusland,”
Roughly midway through the 2009 rockumentary It Might Get Loud, Jack White of the late-and-lamented White Stripes shares his all-time favorite song: “Grinnin’ In Your
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