This week’s Angelus News column is about a 1963 film called A Child is Waiting, directed by John Cassavetes. Burt Lancaster plays the psychiatrist director of Crawthorne, a state institution for children with mental and emotional disabilities, and Judy Garland is a new teacher who challenges his methods.
Over on Substack you’ll find a review of Tove Jansson’s A Summer Book and another of Rose-Lynn Fisher’s A Topography of Tears.
June is the hottlest month of the year here in Tucson, but I sort of like the long afternoons inside with my films and books and then Evening Prayer and Mass at Newman Center (I have other options as well).
Still one slot left in my next Writing Workshop–it starts a week from tomorrow, so last call!
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