136 - The Novel Against Self-Destruction - Joshua Hren

The Catholic Culture Podcast · Jun 30, 2022 · 1h 20m

Joshua Hren returns to discuss his debut novel, Infinite Regress.

"In the years since his graduation from St. Marquis University, Blake Yourrick has fled his family and Milwaukee, rotating from job to dead-end job—working the Bakken oilfields in Dakota and even signing on as the night caretaker of a rural abbey graveyard. Deep in student debt and estranged from his misanthropic, alcoholic father, Blake is haunted by the memory of his mother's death—and by his relationship with his college mentor, a defrocked priest named Theo Hape, who is known for his adventurous theological ideas as well as…