By Little and by Little: The Selected Writings

These selections from Dorothy Day's several books, her published articles, and her columns in The Catholic Worker are a revelation of an extraordinary, redemptive life, from her conversion to Catholicism in 1926 (which shocked her radical friends) to her later years of "retirement," when others ran the paper for her. The writing is meditative, ironical, combative, filled with love for the extensive Catholic Worker family, and suffused with her sense of the "holy sublimity of the everyday."