{"id":293690,"date":"2024-11-13T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-122-minor-indignities\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:22:49","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-122-minor-indignities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-122-minor-indignities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 122 &#8211; Minor Indignities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Jan 12, 2022<\/p>\n<p>T.C. Merrill&#8217;s debut novel, <em>Minor Indignities<\/em>, is an<br \/>\nevocative portrayal of the vanity of undergraduate life at an Ivy<br \/>\nLeague university. Its protagonist, a freshman consumed with what<br \/>\nothers think of him intellectually, socially and sexually, only<br \/>\nmakes a fool of himself the more he strains to impress. The novel<br \/>\nultimately becomes a richness of embarrassments whose final<br \/>\ncatastrophe illustrates the saying of St. Bernard: \u201cHumiliation is<br \/>\nthe way to humility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merrill joins the show to talk about his novel, his essay &#8220;The<br \/>\nSituation of the Catholic Novelist&#8221;, Waugh&#8217;s <em>Brideshead<br \/>\nRevisited<\/em>, how a fiction writer should approach depicting<br \/>\nsexuality, the relation between art and emotion, and Ren\u00e9<br \/>\nGirard.<\/p>\n<p>Watch interview on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xH1Fm6C9i7E\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/xH1Fm6C9i7E<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Minor Indignities<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p103\/minor-indignities-by-trevor-cribben-merrill.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p103\/minor-indignities-by-trevor-cribben-merrill.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Situation of the Catholic Novelist&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p116\/The-Situation-of-the-Catholic-Novelist.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p116\/The-Situation-of-the-Catholic-Novelist.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like<br \/>\nthe show, please consider supporting us! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/122-a-richesse-of-embarrassments-tc-merrill\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 12, 2022 T.C. Merrill&#8217;s debut novel, Minor Indignities, is an evocative portrayal of the vanity of undergraduate life at an Ivy League university. Its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}