Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez will be one of the plenary speakers—along with Dana Gioia, Ron Hansen, Alice McDermott, Kevin Starr, and Tobias Wolff—at the conference “The Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination,” which takes place February 19 – 21, 2015, at the  USC Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies in Los Angeles, California.

Description: The best novels, poems and stories have the power to move us in profound ways. Come join Julia Alvarez, Dana Gioia, Ron Hansen, Alice McDermott, Kevin Starr, Tobias Wolff and many more leading writers, critics, scholars, editors, and journalists—young and old, Catholic and non-Catholic–in a dynamic, serious (but never pious) conversation about the relationship between faith and literature in contemporary American culture. Presenters include Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Paul Mariani, Patricia Hampl, Francisco Aragon, D. J. Waldie, Albert Gelpi, Gregory Wolfe, Raymond Schroth, S.J., Joe Hoover, S.J. and many, many more.

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