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Flannery O'Connor once said of her own writing, "my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil." Some have expressed shock at the sheer evil nature of the Joker. I'm not sure if I'm calloused or if I was brought up in an era when " The Killing Joke " and " Arkham Asylum " were the current renditions of the Batman/Joker mythos but I was not shocked by Heath Ledger's...
What would happen if Flannery O'Connor wrote a book in the one-album-per-tome 33 1/3 series about the Fall's Hex Enduction Hour ? Hayden Childs, who wrote his own book in the series on Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out The Lights , has found out: "The next night, Haze parked the Kraken in front of the Hotel Aggro and climbed up it and began to preach. 'I tell you that this is the home of the...
A report on what "secular or explicitly anti-Catholic researchers" have been forced to concede — "Heaps of Empirical Evidence" Vindicate Pope Paul VI's Dire Warnings 40 Years Ago About Contraceptive Culture . Said Flannery O'Connor on the subject, "The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder...
This article made me grit my teeth and (at least) inspired me to repost this Flannery O'Connor quotation (and make part of it bold while I'm at it): There are those who maintain that you can't demand anything of the reader. They say the reader knows nothing about art, and that if you are going to reach him, you have to be humble enough to descend to his level. This supposes that the aim of art is to...
Q: Should Catholic fiction writers write for a Catholic audience? A: No. Not enough Catholics read good fiction. To write for a Catholic audience would mean that the writer would either 1) have to write down, or 2) starve to death. Neither is advisable. --Flannery O'Connor. (Response to the question of a student correspondent in The Motley [Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL] Spring 1958. Reprinted in...
Read good writers. This is perhaps not said enough: we write more like the people we read than we perhaps know. Those who read all academic textbooks and reference books, as both undergrads and grads tend to do, are influenced by those kinds of books. Those who read Flannery O’Connor tend to write like her [...]
I have written several essays so far in English Torture class. I scored several As up to the point when we had to write on the religious overtones of Flannery O’Connor’s work and explicate a poem. I earned Bs. I don’t think the teacher, a soon-to-be published poet, appreciated my clever ability to write a whinge [...]
I didn’t know anyone had adapted Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” but somebody has posted ’60s-era short, attributed to Gary Graver, at YouTube.
Invoked today at Taki's Magizine by John Zmirak — Tenderness Leads to the Gas Chamber . Also, at the same site, Mr. Zmirak and fellow Christian Caleb Steggal do a yeoman's job in defending the site against racialism, a "kind of idiocy [that] ought to be squelched fast and hard" — Racism, Ron Paul & Porn , Race Blind Justice , and Permanent Children?
Short Story Month Two books I'm looking forward to this year are the annual winners of the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award which will be published this fall by the University of Georgia Press. While the judges differ year from...
Eudora's Kitchen, Jackson, Mississippi, 2007 Photographer Susana Raab’s series “A Sense of Place” invites us into the homes of Southern literary greats – Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor and
So many choices, sweet Georgia! Photo by Bob Jangendorf How can I choose between Alice Walker, Flannery O’Connor, Olive Ann Burns, and Sue Monk Kidd…? First, here is Melanie Jones’ choice: Tayari Jones’ debut, Leaving Atlanta, is set during the 1979 Atlanta Child Murders, at which time a total of 29 black children were killed. Three kids tell their stories: Tasha, struggling [...]
