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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts (0 episodes recommend it and 2 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Dana Gioia (1 episode) and Ryan Holiday (1 episode) on Conversations with Tyler (1 episode) and The Daily Stoic (1 episode).
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That's why I think I was so struck by death comes for the Archbishop, like, it should have been, it should be a boring book, like nothing happens. Like this guy, I read it when I was in my 20s, I hardly remember, but I remember.
Ryan Holiday · The Daily Stoic · Nov 2026 The best things said about it
Willa Cather, who was not Catholic, wrote, you know, Death Comes for the Archbishop, maybe the best Catholic novel in American literature.
Dana Gioia Conversations with Tyler · Apr 2021 Why people recommend it
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is a critically acclaimed American novel that follows two Catholic missionaries in the rugged landscape of the nineteenth-century American Southwest. On The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday discussed reading the novel in tandem with a recent trip to Rome, noting how the cerebral, unhurried pacing of the narrative left a lasting impression on him since his twenties despite very little conventional plot action taking place. Dana Gioia also discussed the novel on Conversations with Tyler, praising it as arguably the greatest Catholic novel in American literature despite the fact that its author was not personally Catholic. The book is frequently examined for its lyrical prose, its atmospheric portrayal of the New Mexico territory, and its deep exploration of faith, duty, and human endurance amidst a shifting historical and cultural landscape.
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Dana Gioia Willa Cather, who was not Catholic, wrote, you know, Death Comes for the Archbishop, maybe the best Catholi… 1
“Willa Cather, who was not Catholic, wrote, you know, Death Comes for the Archbishop, maybe the best Catholic novel in American literature.”
Ryan Holiday That's why I think I was so struck by death comes for the Archbishop, like, it should have been, it should… 1
“So the food was just amazing, but I was reading Willa Cather's death comes for the Archbishop. And it was this sort of flood of all these things because the book opens in Rome and we just gotten back from Rome.”
“That's why I think I was so struck by death comes for the Archbishop, like, it should have been, it should be a boring book, like nothing happens. Like this guy, I read it when I was in my 20s, I hardly remember, but I remember.”