Over on the Ignatius Press novels blog there is a unique post about The Catholicity of Catholic Literature. The title of the post intrigued me as this topic books by Catholic writers has interested me for awhile. Sure the whole post is about how the current state of Catholic fiction in English is bleak and those in the anglosphere, English speaking world, need to branch out into other languages and read works that have been translated into English or in the native language. They point to the Don Camillo series by Giovannino Guareschi as Catholicism is not taken for granted in Italy. They also point toward Poland as a place where Catholic writers had a difficult time under Communist rule, yet there are some who have amazing things Karol Wojtyla, wrote poetry under pseudonyms others like Czeslaw Milosz left the country to be published.
I really don’t care if you want to explore the depths of Catholic literature but if you do Wikipedia has a list of Catholic authors sorted by language which you can explore. I don’t put much into finding out much about authors let alone their religion before I read a book if they happen to be Catholic and it shows through that is pretty cool. The problem that I see with Catholic literature is that it seem most of it is old (Waugh, Augustine, Chesterton, Lewis); and it seems that many modern writers has gotten more into the historical/spiritual side of writing. Hopefully there can be some new faces that emerge in the world of Catholic fiction or more likely Catholic write more fiction of any type.
Deep in the well 
From listening to other writers, I suspect that much of the work, were it to arise, would voice the despair felt in what is seen as betrayal by the institution across the board. Something even along the lines of Cormac McCarthy.
Are you ready for that?
Sure. The pessimism and despair felt by many towards the Church should be reflected in writing. It is not always the grace of a Flannery O’Connor story that need to be reflected but the chaos and struggle found in a Katherine Anne Porter story or even the search for religion found in Jack Kerouac or the struggle of living in two worlds seen in Fitzgerald’s works.