Joshua Hren is founder of Wiseblood Books, co-founder of the Honors College at Belmont Abbey, and co-founder of the new MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas.
We would do well to heed Kafka’s insight that Flaubert found in family life a kind of flourishing he himself failed to seek.
Henry James’s fiction shows how aesthetic misjudgments can be connected to moral vice.