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Brian Volck

A collection of 11 posts

Escapes to Ladner, Vancouver, Port Townsend, and Nowhere Else: adventures in rest, reading, writing, cinema, and music

Escapes to Ladner, Vancouver, Port Townsend, and Nowhere Else: adventures in rest, reading, writing, cinema, and music

Some travel journaling from my late summer excursions and escapes.

Looking Closer's Last-Minute Christmas Gift Recommendations

Many of you are scrambling to pick up gifts for friends and family, and I feel compelled to bring some possibilities to your attention... gifts that would enrich the lives of those who care about excellence, beauty, truth, and the arts.

The Sound of a Place: Guest Writer Brian Volck on Over the Rhine's New Album

I posted my own review of Over the Rhine's new album earlier this week. I could have left it that but, well, the doctor is in! And I want you to hear his own diagnosis!

On Books & Writing

Wendell Berry and Brian Volck Ponder the Gulf Oil Spill

Here's a four-minute video of Wendell Berry responding to the oil spill. And here's what Brian Volck says about the disaster in today's Good Letters post: The vast, swirling, and toxic mess euphemistically named the Gulf oil “spill” calls to mind Dante’s

On Books & Writing

If Only...

“I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.” * Henry David Thoreau ... to which I respond, "SHUT. UP."

Looking Elsewhere

Browser: The "Remember me?" edition. Best Directors of the Decade. Lonely writers.

Okay, it's official: My life has become too busy for me to be a responsible blogger. Let me try to make it up to you in the next couple of weeks, with a new video blog, my list of Favorite Films of 2009 (the Premature Version), my list

Browser: ArtsandFaith.com, Pixar Wine, Nick Cave's Gladiator 2, St. Vincent... and Love.

I'm sorry that things have been slow on the blog lately. I've just wrapped up an essay for an upcoming issue of Image, and I'm burning the midnight oil as I revise Raven's Ladder for an early 2010 publication. But I'

On Books & Writing

Image: Ricky Gervais, a Bad Word, the Pacific Ocean, and More.

A few highlights from the last week of Good Letters, the Image blog... * A.G. Harmon on Ricky Gervais - "My Favorite Atheist" * Brian Volck on a maddening word... "nice." * Kelly Foster on the power of the Pacific Ocean. * Ann Conway on "The Fear Dog and

On Movies & Media

Brian Volck Discovers "There Will Be Blood"

Brian Volck saw There Will Be Blood for the first time on DVD. That's too bad, as it was a riveting big-screen experience. But Volck does not appear to have suffered much. He was, to borrow the term my friend Brandon Fibbs employed when he first saw

On Movies & Media

IMAGE: "The Secret" is screwy, and other recent observations.

I continue to find frequent, thought-provoking, inspiring thoughts at the new Image blog. Ann Conway notes the problem with The Secret. Other recent IMAGE commentaries include: * A look at the new film As We Forgive, "first-time filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson's look at reconciliation in the

On Movies & Media

Brian Volck Remembers Paul Scofield

Among my friends, the man with the most impressive voice for reading and public speaking is probably Brian Volck, a pediatrician, coauthor of Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine (Brazos Press, 2006), and a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific's MFA in Creative Writing