Flannery o'connor

When she was attending the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the mid-1940s, Flannery O’Connor asked her priest whether she could write about “difficult things.” We can only assume that the priest gave O’Connor his blessing: Few writers have tackled more “difficult things” than O’Connor. The new documentary Flannery, playing at a variety of “virtual cinemas” […]

They knew that talent would only take them so far.

Revelation Flannery O'Connor The Doctor’s waiting room, which was very small, was almost full when the Turpins entered and Mrs. Turpin, who was very large, made it look even smaller by her presence. She stood looming at the head of the magazine table set in the center of it, a living demonstration that the room was inadequate and ridiculous. Her little bright black eyes took in all the patients as she sized up the seating situation. There was one vacant chair and a place on the sofa occupied…

So, Kendra knows I love her (at least I hope she does. Love you, Kendra. Love your blog.) And Kendra isn’t afraid to stir the pot, which is something I really like about her. But I honestly lost sl…

Ethan Hawke has made a movie as scandalous as one of the writer’s short stories.

Andalusia, the Baldwin County Farm where Flannery O'Connor wrote most of her fiction, is now open to visitors, after a year of waiting.

Emory University has acquired an important — and huge — trove of the Georgia-born author Flannery O’Connor’s papers and effects.

Flannery O'Connor with one of her peacocks in Milledgeville, Georgia, July 1962. Courtesy of Georgia State University. http://www.georgiatrust.org/historic_sites/rambles/ramble.php

Ha! We know you were hoping for pictures of our knobby knees, but they are mostly hidden beneath our desks. This post is really about short story collections, either compilations of our own work or…