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The One Word That Checkmates Intelligent Design

Is... Before I get to that (you probably already know what it is), some random notes of literary and/or scientific interest: Flannery O'Connor's Complete Stories wins the National Book Award of National Book Awards (sort of the way Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker of Bookers a few years back). In a development whose irony he himself would have appreciated, profanity filters screen out the...

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“The Revival of Flannery O'Connor”

KANSAS CATHOLIC links to a video, in the article The Revival of Flannery O'Connor . The celebrated American literary writers of our past and present are very far from the orthodoxy of Christ's Church, and are far even from the uncertain faith of the bulk of the American people. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) is one of the very few orthodox Christians among the great American literary writers, but her...

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An appreciation: Writing for Sister Maura was hard work

Many arguments later, a former student sees that she and her teacher were on the same side By the time I entered the College of Notre Dame in the early 1960s, Sister Maura Eichner was already well known. Author of several books of poetry, she was friends with important literary figures like Flannery O'Connor, Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur - connections that were unusual for a woman teacher in the...

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On-the-run update

I stupidly tried to use WordPress’s “upgrade automatically” feature last night and experienced about half an hour of what it must be like to be a ‘roid addict with serotonin problems. Anyway, here’s hoping she holds together for the weekend until my RL crap passes. Come on, baby, hold together…. Flannery O’Connor wins American vote Book trailers—sign...

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Weekend Event Roundup Nov. 20-21

J. Tillman w/ Pearly Gate Music at the Grey Eagle 9pm $8 advance / $10 day of show. Standing room only. If you like Band of Horses, Bon Iver or Fleet Foxes, you will probably love this guy. From allmusic.com Singer/songwriter J. Tillman's music paints languid, sadly beautiful portraits of love and life on the margins with the moody depth of Nick Drake and the country-influenced textures of Ryan Adams....

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America's 'Booker Of Bookers' (Or, How Flannery O'Connor Is Like Salman Rushdie)

"In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, [Flannery O'Connor's] collection 'The Complete Stories' was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history." The competition was formidable: collected stories of John Cheever, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty as well as Ellison's Invisible Man and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow....

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Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll

In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.

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Colum McCann Takes NBA Fiction Prize

The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York City in the 1970s. The piece was described as an "indelibly hallucinatory portrait...

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: See Who Won (LIST)

Check here for a list of winners. Names will be added as they are received. Best of 60 yrs of nba winners: Complete Stories of Flannery O'connor (was put to a vote on the web, 10,000 responses) Young people's literature: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose Poetry: Transcendental Studies by Keith Waldrop Non-fiction: The First Tycoon, by TJ Stiles Fiction Let the Great World Spin,...

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YES! Wow.

The winner of the Best of the National Book Awards in Fiction, a contest run by the Foundation to pick the best of the 77 books that have won the National Book Award for fiction in the last 60 years, is Flannery O'Connor! She was selected by readers such as you in an on-line vote vote. The finalists were Cheever, Ellison, Faulkner, Pynchon, Welty. More on the NBA coming shortly.***************

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Writing Advice from Cormac McCarthy

The Wall Street Journal just ran an excellent interview with the seldom-interviewed Cormac McCarthy , and I thought this advice was particularly sound: WSJ: The last five years have seemed very productive for you. Have there been fallow periods in your writing? CM: I don't think there's any rich period or fallow period. That's just a perception you get from what's published. Your busiest day might...

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A trip to the Nolan Plantation

Photos by Drew Outfit one: Lover dress, Tabio Little Heart tights , d.i.y. bow shoes Outfit two: '70s Young Edwardian dress, Tabio polka dot tights , Dolce Vita shoes Outfit three: black velvet dress (stolen from the store), Tabio Flower Tights , Jeffrey Campbell shoes (old ones I changed up a bit by cutting off the ruffled t-strap--they're like new shoes now!), Urban Outfitters hat. I've been wanting...

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Review: Black Elvis by Geoffrey Becker

Geoffrey Becker’s short stories in Black Elvis have a tendency to leave me scratching my head—but that’s just the point. Becker’s characters are frequently left scratching their heads, too. Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Black Elvis collects a dozen of Becker’s stories into a collection that could best be described as a handbook for people...

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Inspiration invited ...

... Questions about Flannery O'Connor's WISE BLOOD .

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“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Essays: A Cynical or Hopeful Story

“She would’ve been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a story of Flannery O’Connor, which will not leave you indifferent. The story might call different feelings in you, and certainly, you can share them in your [...]