Tag Archives: The Screwtape Letters

Book Launch Sunday in Summerside, Harbor Online Community Talk Tonight

Posted on September 10, 2026 by Brenton Dickieson

I love back-to-school week! A little while ago, I talked about the First Days of School in my Garden Gate Summer Note. A “Garden Gate Summer” is my own term for that blessed return of summer, even as the earth … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, Original Research | Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Book Event, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, The Spiritual Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Twenty One Pilots, writing | 1 Comment

Trumpkin Derangement Syndrome and Book Review Bulverism

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Brenton Dickieson

I have a book on the way to print. Woo! and hoo! I thought my dominant feeling would be pride when I finally spoke those words. I probably will feel pride when, in the tradition of authors for the last … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Bible, Bulverism, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis and the Bible, Creative Practice, God in the Dock, Leslie Baynes, Pauline Baynes, Piglet, Prince Caspian, social media, The Screwtape Letters, Trumpkin, writing | 25 Comments

“The Monster in Me: C.S. Lewis’ Inversion of the Monstrous Other in his Speculative Fiction” (My Abstract for Monster Fest 2025)

Posted on October 21, 2025 by

Hello, fair folk, far and near! I wanted to let you know about one of the handful of talks and papers that have occupied a good deal of my research and reading in 2025. Next week’s Monster Fest in Halifax, … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, Original Research | Tagged Alterity, C.S. Lewis, monsterology, monsters, monstrosity, Narnia, Otherness, Out of the Silent Planet, The Screwtape Letters | 11 Comments

My Unblurbed Blurb of Charlie Starr’s The Lion Country

Posted on October 9, 2024 by

As I am between steps in the publication of a book about C.S. Lewis’s thought, I find myself coming back to my bookshelf with a bit of mental space. I have been following Charlie W. Starr’s work for almost as … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Charlie Starr, literature, myth, Narnia, philosophy, The Faun's Bookshelf, The Lion's Country, The Screwtape Letters, writing | 3 Comments

The Other Side of Screwtape: C.S. Lewis’s “Archangel Fragment”

Posted on October 2, 2024 by

Have I talked about this super cool bit of research and writing yet? As I look through the Pilgrim in Narnia archive, I see a couple of hints of the “Archangel Fragment,” but not much more. In a cultural moment … Continue reading →