This candid memoir explores how a man who built a successful career in the technology sector as a public relations specialist is forced to confront his repressed childhood memories of abuse from the early 1980’s. In 2002, when faced with the series of investigative reports by The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team detailing the systemic abuse of minors by Catholic clergy,…
Month: July 2019
British novelist Evelyn Waugh perhaps reveals more about himself through the fictional character of Gilbert Pinfold, a middle-aged novelist who suffers a mental breakdown brought on by the use of sedatives and pain medication, than through any of his other creations. Like Waugh, Mr. Pinfold is a convert to Catholicism who lives at a country estate somewhat withdrawn from society.…
The Literary Titan website reviewed my anthology of short stories, I Have Demons, and published the book review below. * Christopher Adam’s book, I Have Demons, is a collection of three stories that are snapshots of the lives of three different people in and around the city of Ottawa, Canada. As the author describes in the preface, the main characters…
I have just returned from nearly three weeks in Budapest, Hungary. My time there was a balancing act of family visits, spending time with friends and exploring the layers of history and memory in this region. One of my visits was to Budapest’s Cave Church, or in Hungarian Sziklatemplom. Located in the heart of Gellért Hill, the temperature inside the…