The Good News of Rereading, 4.2.2017
Tasha Rutledge and I had class together when she was a freshman at SLU in 2007. We read The Book of Mev in that class, and many years later she told me she reads it…
Category: Book of Mev
A More Lively Mode
I read James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson in the summer of 1999. At the time I was gathering materials for what eventually became The Book of Mev. The following passage from Boswell left its…
Sempre Avanti
Sempre avanti, Italian. “Always keep moving forward.” I first learned this expression from Helena, a friend who typically signed off her letters with this expression, or else with Coraggio. A historian and a convert to…
Facebook Wall Post from Chris Hesh, 11.20.2008
I saw a composition notebook and The Book of Mev with a college student attached yesterday night at the Gelateria. Mark ‘Omnipresent’ Chmiel
We Inter-Are/458
1. Mev was inside of me And so I wrote a book And Miriam read the book And Mev was inside of her And when Miriam was with Johnny Mev ended up inside of him…
The Holy Texture of Life (Hold It All)
By chance yesterday I came across the following reflection by Emily Warming from 2007, when she was in a Justice and Peace Senior Seminar with Roger Bergman at Creighton University. I have been blessed and…
Wilder Love by April Ulinski
Started rereading The Book of Mev last night. Partially because I needed her reminder that being academic does not mean being disengaged from the world and from the people behind all those ideas. Also because…
We Know
In that spring semester course There were 40 students The official limit was 35 But I let more in Before starting The Book of Mev I asked “How many of you Have known someone— A…
Interrupting My Life
Alex Gaynor worked this past year with the Jesuit Volunteers and is currently a campus minister at Saint Joseph University in Philadelphia. She participated in the Be in Love with Yr Life and Writing Rejuvenation…