The Faber Sessions

Faber Sessions IX: Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant

Week 1: 13 February 2023
Poems of the Bible

GANZ NOTES – TFS 9, 1 – Biblical Poetry (13 February 2023)

Week 2: 13 March 2023
George Herbert

TEXTS – George Herbert (1593-1633), 13 March 2023

GANZ NOTES – Love (III) by George Herbert

GANZ NOTES – Denial – George Herbert

Faber Sessions VIII: Monsters (and How to Scare Them)

Week 1: 12 September 2022
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Selections from Ganz Notes for TFS 8, 1 on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein…

Mary Shelley – a Brief Biographical Sketch

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) Mary Shelley The Guardian

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft by Betty T. Bennett

Week 2: 7 November 2022
Dracula by Bram Stoker

GANZ NOTES for TFS 8, 2 (7 November 2022) on Bram Stoker’s Dracula…

Bram Stoker — Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Dracula (1897) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) Bram Stoker The Guardian

Week 3: 5 December 2022
Scrooge from A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

GANZ NOTES – The Faber Sessions, Series 8, Part III – Scrooge of A…

Wikipedia – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

BIOGRAPHY – Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870)

Pope Francis – “On Mistakes”

Faber Sessions VII: A Portrait of a Literary Artist

Week 4: 2 May 2022
Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis

GANZ NOTES – TFS 7, 4 – Reflections on the Psalms (2 May 2022)

GANZ NOTES on Psalm 19

C.S. Lewis’ Favorite Books: Writers Who Influenced his Philosophy…

Meilaender – The Everyday C.S. Lewis (First Things, 1998)

James M. Houston – The Prayerlife of C.S. Lewis (1988)

Diane Bergant, Ph.D. – “Types of Biblical Psalms”

Week 3: 5 April 2022
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

GANZ NOTES – Preface to The Great Divorce (1945)

GANZ NOTES on Chapter 9, The Great Divorce (1946)

C.S. Lewis in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th ed…

“Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days” by Claudia Frances Hernaman…

Pope Francis I – “Do You Want to Fast This Lent?”

Week 2: 7 March 2022
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

GANZ NOTES – TFS 7, 2 – Till We Have Faces (1956)

GANZ NOTES – Peter Schakel, Introduction

GANZ NOTES on Peter Schakel, Chapters 1-2

Harrison Mark – Psyche – World History Encyclopedia

TEXT (Complete) – Cupid and Psyche – Bulfinch’s Mythology (1867)

Week 1: 7 February 2022
The Pilgrim’s Regress by C.S. Lewis

Ganz Resources – TFS 7, 1 – C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933…

GANZ NOTES – Opening Paragraphs of The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933)

PREFERRED EDITION – The Pilgrim’s Regress

Lewis – Mappa Mundi (Wade Center, 2014)

Faber Session VI: A Present Mirror in Music Past

Week 4: 6 December 2021
Cat Stevens

Official Biographical Sketch – Yusuf:Cat Stevens

GANZ NOTES on Cat Stevens : Yusuf Islam (b July 1948)

TEXT – Trouble (1970) by Cat Stevens : Yusuf Islam

TEXT – The Wind (1971) – Yusuf:Cat Stevens

TEXT – Morning Has Broken (1971) by Yusuf:Cat Stevens

TEXT – Father and Son (1970) by Yusuf:Cat Stevens

Week 3: 1 November 2021
Joni Mitchell & Cat Stevens

GANZ NOTES – TFS 6, III (1 November 2021)

GANZ NOTES on Both Sides Now (1967) by Joni Mitchell

DISCOGRAPHY (1968-1975) – Joni Mitchell.png

TEXT – Blue by Joni Mitchell (1971)

TEXT – Both Sides, Now (1967) by Joni Mitchell.docx

BIOGRAPHY – Yusuf:Cat Stevens

Yusuf:Cat Stevens – List of Studio Albums (Wikipedia).png

TEXT – The Wind by Yusuf:Cat Stevens

Week 2: 4 October 2021
Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell

Ganz Notes – TFS 6, II – Bob Dylan, Part II, and Joni Mitchell

GANZ NOTES on Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (1964)

Alex Ross – Dylan, the Wanderer | The New Yorker

Richard F Thomas – Bob Dylan’s Discography

Bob Dylan’s 2016 Nobel Lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/dylan/lecture/

Petrusich – Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings | The New Yorker

Wikipedia – Discography of Joni Mitchell (Complete)

Week 1: 13 September 2021
Woody Guthrie & Bob Dylan

1960s – Genres & Musicians – The People History website – See: https::www.thepeoplehistory.com…

GANZ NOTES on Woody Guthrie – Pastures of Plenty (1941)

Woody Guthrie, into New York City – 1940-1941

GANZ NOTES – Bob Dylan – Blowin’ in the Wind (1962)

Alex Ross – Dylan, The Wanderer (1999) | The New Yorker

Louis Menand – Dylan – Bob on Bob | The New Yorker

Faber Session V: The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin

Week 1: 14 February 2021
A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin — Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Ganz Notes on A Wizard of Earthsea, 14 February 2021

TEXT- Ursula K Le Guin – The Child and the Shadow (April 1975)

Ganz Notes on A Wizard of Earthsea, 14 February 2021

Map of Earthsea

Week 2: 21 February 2021
The Tombs of Atuan

Ganz Notes on The Tombs of Atuan

Ganz on Paul Wadell, CP – On Virtue (NCDS)

Dennis Sansom – Deadly Sins and Demonic (Spring 2018)

Rob Marsh, SJ, Sloth

Nathan Koblinz, Envy

Earthsea – the Kargad Lands

Palace, Tombs, Labyrinth of Atuan

Week 3: 28 February 2021
The Farthest Shore

Ganz Notes on The Farthest Shore (1972)

Ursula Le Guin – A Left-Handed Commencement Address (22 May 1983)

Julie Phillips – The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin | The New Yorker

Rilke – Listeners at Last

Earthsea – The Farthest Shore

Faber Session IV: Lessons from Carols of Advent and Christmas

Week 1: 1 December 2020

Ganz Notes on Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (1599)

Ganz Notes on Christina Rossetti – Advent

TEXT – Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (1599)

TEXT – Christina Rossetti – Advent

TEXT – The Cherry Tree Carol

TEXT – Christina Rossetti – Advent

Week 2: 8 December 2020

TEXT – Maroon 5, Memories (2019)

TEXT – Henry W Longfellow – I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (1864)

TEXT Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (275 CE)

Ganz Notes on Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (275 CE)

TEXT – Mark Lowry – Mary Did You Know (1984)

Ganz Notes on – Mary Did You Know (1984)

Week 3: 15 December 2020

TEXT – Rossetti, In a Bleak Midwinter (1872)

Ganz Notes on Rossetti, In a Bleak Midwinter (1872)

TEXT – Brooks – O Little Town of Bethlehem (1868)

Ganz Notes – Brooks, O Little Town of Bethlehem (1868)

Faber Session III: The First Gift (Nature) Sounding in Human Voices (Poetry)

Mary Oliver: 4 August 2020

Wendell Berry: 11 August 2020

Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ: 18 August 2020

William Stafford: 25 August 2020

Faber Session II: Folktales and Discernment

The Snow Queen: 2 June 2020

The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Shadow: 9 June 2020

Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, The Elves and the Shoemaker: 23 June 2020

Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel: 30 June 2020

Faber Session I: Voyage to Narnia

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: 4 April 2020

Prince Caspian: 10 April 2020

Voyage of the Dawn Treader: 18 April 2020

The Silver Chair: 25 April 2020

The Horse and His Boy: 2 May 2020

The Magician’s Nephew: 9 May 2020

The Last Battle: 16 May 2020