A journey deep into his soul Nov 8, 2008
Now Flanagan brings in American writer Flannery O'Connor, who said nothing significant happens to you after the age of 20. "I don't agree with that," he says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Yaddo exhibit offers glimpse inside haven Nov 5, 2008
Yaddo: Making American Culture A rich, multimedia exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the workings of Yaddo, revealing how it has hosted such luminaries as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Philip Guston, Patricia Highsmith, Jacob Lawrence, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, and Sylvia Plath. Where: New York Public LibraryCost: Free When: On view through February 15, 2009. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Flanagan's book of desire Nov 1, 2008
Now Flanagan brings in American writer Flannery O'Connor, who said nothing significant happens to you after the age of 20. "I don't agree with that," he says, "but it is extraordinary how many large things have been with you for so long but they need some moment to reveal to you what they are in their fullness.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Albinism in the American Novel Oct 21, 2008
Ten Famous Works Trace Genetic Conditions Influence on Literature. Albinism has become the novelist's shorthand for the sublime, a trait that evokes terror, awe, or laughter in characters capable of anything--except common humanity. (Suite101.com)
The Upper Crust of Progressive Episcopalians Oct 21, 2008
Duncan and other protesters agree with the late Flannery O'Connor, the Catholic novelist: "You have to push as hard as the age that pushes against you.". Every 10 years there is a Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, presided over by the archbishop of Canterbury. (Townhall.com)
Winner is... who? Oct 19, 2008
"It has always seemed to me, as Flannery O'Connor said, that a novelist ought to be driven to write about the earliest years of his life, when he first learned to understand the world." The Nobel Prize Committee saw in him an Everyman - representative of no particular country or language - searching, like so many other migrants around the world, for some way to root themselves in an incomprehensibly shifting and changing world. "He is not a particularly French writer if you look at him from a... (BBC News)
Today's Best Bets Oct 14, 2008
Gordon, a noted Flannery O'Connor scholar, will discuss, "A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia," her newest book. Gordon is Professor Emerita at Georgia College and State University. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Where's Mark Twain When We Need Him? Oct 6, 2008
And even a few Americans: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Philip Roth, Edith Wharton, Cormac McCarthy, Stanley Elkin, Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson, Robert Hass. And, of course, Mark Twain. (Washington Post)
Marvelous New Book Sep 17, 2008
A great short story is one in which every sentence matters, often hinging on a singular turning point, ending in a way that is "surprising and inevitable," as Flannery O'Connor said. It's hard to repeat this act without repeating tricks, and to have these stories add up in a meaningful way that mimics the arc of a novel. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
In Jersey City, literary lion was just their Bob Sep 12, 2008
He recognized the Southern Gothic style of Flannery O'Connor as well as the Disengaged American voice of Jack Kerouac. He took a gamble with the experimental writings of Susan Sontag. (NJ.com -- News)
Publishing giant Robert Giroux dies Sep 9, 2008
Known throughout the industry for his taste and discretion, he began in 1940 as an editor at Harcourt, Brace & Company and had so great a reputation that when he left in 1955 to join what was then Farrar, Straus, more than a dozen writers joined him, including Flannery O'Connor, Malamud and Eliot, a close friend ... He also contributed introductions to The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor and to anthologies of Malamud, John Berryman and Elizabeth Bishop. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Text tattoos gaining popularity Sep 8, 2008
She co-edited the 2002 book "Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos," a collection of work by Ray Bradbury, Sylvia Plath, Herman Melville, Flannery O'Connor, William T. Vollmann and others. (The title refers to a tiny star on Parker's arm. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Robert Giroux, giant of publishing, dies Sep 6, 2008
Known throughout the industry for his taste and discretion, he began in 1940 as an editor at Harcourt, Brace & Company and had so great a reputation that when he left in 1955 to join what was then Farrar, Straus, more than a dozen writers joined him, including Flannery O'Connor, Malamud and Eliot, a close friend ... Giroux was an author himself, writing "The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets." He also contributed introductions to "The Complete Stories of Flannery... (MSNBC -- News)
IN OTHER WORDS: Reflections on GSAH Aug 16, 2008
Flannery O'Connor -- good; Harry Potter -- death. After the application and the interview, there was the long, long wait. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Book offers understanding of state's history, contradictions Aug 10, 2008
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Read 'Til You're Red Jul 6, 2008
Later this month comes The Choir of Ill Children (Night Shade Books; 240 pages; $25), a gothic noir that mates Flannery O'Connor with Stephen King, an unnerving prospect indeed. The goods are also delivered in the latest books from two dependable vets: Thomas Perry's Fidelity (Harcourt; 368 pages; $25) splits its narrative between the wife of a murdered private eye and the man who killed him. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Waiting for the new wave Jun 28, 2008
Permission to break away came, for him, from the "regional" writing of America, "writers who are in their own place and challenge it from the specific - that felt so universal to me, reading Mark Twain, reading Faulkner, reading Flannery O'Connor. I didn't always know what was going on, but the strangeness of the music, the peculiarity of it, just swept me along. And that means you don't have to be as performative and showy as someone from an older tradition has to be - people having to... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
STAYcations:Oxford a haven for followers of written word Jun 23, 2008
This is where a church study combines literature with theology in a month-long study on Flannery O'Connor. And it's where, with amazing frequency, a succession of today's acclaimed writers make the pilgrimage for readings, signings and for the pleasure of meeting others who love to read, write and ruminate. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Georgia Literary festival coming to Bainbridge - A first for South Georgia Jun 18, 2008
They join previous honorees who include such notables as Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Raymond Andrews, Flannery O'Connor and Joel Chandler Harris. Other writers participating in the 2008 festival are Glynn Marsh Alam, Mary Kay Andrews, Philip Beidler, Doug Blackmon, Valerie Boyd, Jamie Brannon, Janice Daugharty, Bobby Dews, Frye Gaillard, Nadeen Green, Wynton Hall, James Kimbrell, Dr. Bob LeFavi, Claire Matturo, Jack McDevitt, Sonny Sammons, Michael P. White and Dana Wildsmith. (Bainbridge Post Searchlight, GA)
Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells all May 31, 2008
The Cooks spent several days in Savannah, exploring the Tourist Center, taking a trolley tour, seeing the famous squares of Savannah, visiting the Juliette Gordon Lowe House (she founded the Girl Scouts in America), catching glimpses of the Pirates' House, Churchill's Pub, Factors' Walk, the Pink House Restaurant, Bonaventure Cemetery, and Gryphon tearoom, walking the cobblestones of the river front with its gift shops and restaurants, taking the ferry across the Savannah River, gazing at the... (Andalusia Star News, AL)
Top authors pick best summer books May 30, 2008
This latest, based on a real journal, delves into the history of World War II." Danielle Steel "Become a Better You," by Joel Osteen Books to savor all summer Augusten Burroughs "Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, and Tillie Olsen. Spend the entire summer with them. (CNN -- Showbiz)
The Sopranos – for the PhD set May 24, 2008
Their sessions mingled with headier intellectual fare, such as discussions linking The Sopranos with Yeats, playwright Tom Stoppard and writer Flannery O'Connor. Other researchers delved into the show's dream sequences, use of silence and approach to epistemology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the source and nature of knowledge. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
5/26: Casiotone May 20, 2008
While any event may inspire the lyrics (which may not be about him at all), he takes cues from his favorite writers, such as Tennessee Williams and Flannery O'Connor, when penning his lyrics. "I try to be conscious of writing songs that feel timeless and relevant," Ashworth says. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Doig's next novel about World War II May 20, 2008
Flannery O'Connor was terribly ill most of her short writing life. She said of patience and writing habits, 'You may be able to do without them if you have genius, but most of us only have talent that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or else it dries up and blows away. (Dowagiac News, MI)
Back - due to popular demand May 3, 2008
And they inhabit the margins because, as Denis Donoghue says, "the margins is the place for those feelings and intuitions that daily life doesn't have a place for and mostly seems to suppress. And the most important intuition is of mystery." Or, as Flannery O'Connor said, "Fiction is concerned with mystery that is lived; the ultimate mystery as we find it embodied in the concrete world of sense experience.". And now The Big Chapel has a chance to come back to full life after 30 years of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Test your news knowledge! Mar 28, 2008
How well have you kept up with current events this week. Atlanta ranked second in growth among large U.S. cities. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
New voices: Hillary Jordan's 'Mudbound,' literature of social change Feb 28, 2008
On creating the voices of African-American characters: "It was daunting. I had very well-meaning people say things like, 'Even Faulkner didn't write about black people in the first person.' Ultimately, I just decided that letting my black characters speak against the ugliness of Jim Crow in their own voices was the only way to give them any measure of justice."Literary influences: Flannery O'Connor, Jane Austen. Next up: "Something very different. It's set in a dystopia in the near future.". (USA Today -- Life)
Raymond Kennedy, mined Western Mass. for oft-praised novels Feb 24, 2008
Of "Ride a Cockhorse," published in 1991, Chicago Tribune book critic Joseph Coates wrote: "Raymond Kennedy is a novelist of such diabolical artistry that he may be the most original American writer since Flannery O'Connor.". The following year, Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley wrote: "Why is John Updike a literary giant while Raymond Kennedy, who writes far more interestingly about relations between the sexes, utterly unknown?". (Boston Globe)
'Presumed Innocence' presents kids as more than tiny adults Feb 11, 2008
The great artistic renderings of childhood - the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, say, or the court portraits of Velasquez - never let us forget that adorability is, at best, a single element in a far greater complexity. Children are not smaller adults. (Boston Globe)
Character Counts: Of John McCain and his Critics Feb 11, 2008
Flannery O'Connor, whose very name brings a smile to memory, was once asked, as a representative Southern Author, another arbitrary category she despised, why Southern writers seem so fascinated by freaks. Because, she said, we in the South can still recognize a freak when we see one. (Townhall.com)
Living • What Augusta readers are reading Feb 3, 2008
Mr. Hutchison said he could come up with a list of 100 books, but a few novels he finds "particularly fantastic" include Till We Have Faces , by C.S. Lewis;, The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick; Mother Night , by Kurt Vonnegut;, What is the What, by Dave Eggers (the best novel of last year, he said); The Complete Stories , by Flannery O'Connor; and No Country for Old Men. From the Sunday, February 03, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle Reader Comments Note: Comments are not edited... (The Augusta Chronicle)
Lee and the Lingering South Jan 19, 2008
When Flannery O'Connor was asked why Southerners seem to have a penchant for writing about freaks, she would say: Because in the South we are still able to recognize a freak when we see one. To do that, one must have some idea of what wholeness would be. (Townhall.com)
Write now (11/25) Nov 25, 2007
Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers created brilliant, poignant fiction, with a decidedly Southern accent. These are stories that anyone could enjoy, no rating system required. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
First look: Tahmima Anam Nov 24, 2007
I'm a great admirer of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Willa Cather is another favourite. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Mailer knew his way around sentence structure Nov 19, 2007
If he didn't rise above them all to take his place with Faulkner, Dostoevski and Tolstoy, as he at one time envisioned himself doing, he was at the very least right in there with the best of his contemporaries who include, after all, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Grace Paley, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike and two particular thorns in Mailer's tough, scarred hide: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal. But after charging onto the literary landscape with The Naked and the Dead (1948), his bold, brash,... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'Responding to Home' exhibit at MOCA explores concept with heart Nov 17, 2007
Boling, who has found a literary home in the work of Flannery O'Connor, explores Milledgeville, her home for part of her life, in an elegiac artist's book. Because the possibilities are so vast, it's a bit of a disappointment that four of the seven artists stick so close to, well, home. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
IN MY LIBRARY Nov 11, 2007
by Flannery O'Connor. You cannot understand the work of Bruce Springsteen without understanding O'Connor. (New York Post -- Opinions)
High-wire performers Nov 3, 2007
Nearly five decades later, when I myself was lurking around Esquire magazine - this was the middle 1980s - and publishing an occasional short story, the editor-in-chief-of-the-moment told me over dinner one night that he wouldn't publish short stories at all in Esquire (publisher of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Carver, Bellow, Roth, Updike, Salter, Beattie) if he could find something else to wedge in between the ads. What it is that short stories uniquely do in the exercise... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Hiking The Palmetto Trail Oct 7, 2007
On the Palmetto Trail / An easy stroll introduces the natural wonders of the South. You have to take it slow. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Grief and fear test a friendship Sep 30, 2007
"Songs Without Words" is an intriguing and well-written exploration of friendship, marriage, parenthood, and the notion that - to quote Flannery O'Connor - "it is the extreme situation that best reveals what we are essentially." Those who appreciate reading about the struggles of characters trying to do the right thing, for themselves and for each other, will find in this novel a gratifying read. Jessica Treadway is the author of "Absent Without Leave" and "And Give You Peace.". (Boston Globe)
Real life plot twists of famous authors Sep 27, 2007
Flannery O'Connor, author of 32 short stories including "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge," developed a love for birds at a very young age. Growing up on her family's estate in Georgia, O'Connor enjoyed playing with the chickens they raised there and reportedly taught one of them to walk backward, making the chicken somewhat of a local celebrity. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Flannery O'Connor Sep 24, 2007
Ms. O'Connor is worth the time spent to read. As a young woman, she applied to one of the only creative writing programs in the country, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and she was almost rejected because the admissions interviewer couldn't understand her Southern accent. (Suite101.com)
A spiritual journey: O'Connor finds home at St. Andrew's Sep 8, 2007
Family: Wife, Deidra, an educator; children, Flannery, 13, Mary Kathryn, 10, and Edward, 6; related to the late Southern novelist Flannery O'Connor. Notable: Board member, Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi, Feed My Sheep Soup Kitchen, Coast Episcopal School, and Interfaith Task Force; helped found Camp Coast Care in Long Beach after Hurricane Katrina. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Mother Teresa: A saint of 'darkness Sep 6, 2007
"I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe," wrote Flannery O'Connor, the Catholic author whose stories traverse the landscape of 20th-century unbelief. "What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. It is much harder to believe than not to believe.". (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
How did we miss these? Sep 2, 2007
I'm often surprised to meet serious readers (and writers) who have not yet read the short stories of Flannery O'Connor. She's a master. (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: Grace Paley Aug 24, 2007
Critics greeted Paley's first collection, The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), with the kind of superlatives used in the same decade for first books by Flannery O'Connor and Philip Roth. Roth himself praised Paley for "a language of new and rich emotional subtleties, with a kind of backhanded grace and irony all its own.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Emotional, heartfelt tales of relationships gone awry Aug 15, 2007
The controlled emotion of this story is almost worthy of Flannery O'Connor -- until a flat, needlessly declarative final page leaves a final sour taste. Thompson excels at portraying characters too easily betrayed by those they hoped to love and be loved by, too unobservant or naive to notice the thunderbolts poised to strike them down. (Boston Globe)
'Make yer point' Aug 11, 2007
Mary Gray Hughes recommended I look at the work of Flannery O'Connor and Emily Bront 's use of dialect in Wuthering Heights. Of course I had my own opinions about "dialect" and I sent her "Nice to be Nice". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
True happiness Jul 31, 2007
JG wrote on Jul 27, 2007 10:59 AM:" Christ is the light of the world-- and the light that enlightens every man who comes into the world. So said St. John in the first chapter of his gospel. Are all non-Christians consigned to hell--or will they be judged according to how they cooperated with that light, even if they didn't recognize it in this life for what it truly was? As a Catholic Christian, a nuance, like the American writer Flannery O'Connor, I insist on, I like to think the answer to the... (Sioux City Journal)
Writing: Art or Science? Jul 25, 2007
Flannery O'Connor had the right idea: When the Dixie Limited comes roaring through, get off the track to a nice, safe siding ... Flannery O'Connor gets the final word - as usual ... Flannery O'Connor had the right idea: When the Dixie Limited comes roaring through, get off the track to a nice, safe siding. (Townhall.com)
Our children need context and stories Jul 6, 2007
We should also encourage the reading and discussion of Georgia's great authors from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to Flannery O'Connor; from W.E.B. DuBois to Lewis Grizzard. We should work toward the development of a state history museum. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The Cultural Illiteracy of Atheist Christopher Hitchens Jul 1, 2007
Flannery O'Connor demonstrated how her characters' estimations of their own goodness provided the opening for Satanic influences ... Instead, you'll find pastel-covered saccharine tomes, the pious stories that the devout Catholic Flannery O'Connor disparaged ... Flannery O'Connor demonstrated how her characters' estimations of their own goodness provided the opening for Satanic influences. (Townhall.com)
Cruel Britannia Jun 14, 2007
Turning to American literature, I asked her how she liked Hemingway, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and John Steinbeck ... Turning to American literature, I asked her how she liked Hemingway, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and John Steinbeck. (Townhall.com)
CAL THOMAS: Cruel Britannia Jun 14, 2007
Turning to American literature, I asked her how she liked Hemingway, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and John Steinbeck. She hadn't read them either. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
O'Connor friend, confidante Betty Hester saved letters from the author May 14, 2007
Few people knew that Hester an avid and insightful reader was a close friend and confidante of the world-renowned Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, although the two rarely met in person ... Betty Hester an avid and insightful reader was a close friend and confidante of the world-renowned Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, although the two rarely met in person ... The main barn at Andalusia, the Baldwin County farm where noted author Flannery O'Connor grew up, wrote most of her work, and died. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Flannery O'Connor letters describe old friend May 14, 2007
About an hour later, a man who appears frequently and unflatteringly in the correspondence of Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, showed up to take his medicine ... William A. Sessions, 77, a friend of Flannery O'Connor;s, is mentioned with both irritation and warmth in the letters made public on Saturday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Flannery O'Connor letters open May 14, 2007
Flannery O'Connor letters describe old friend ... About an hour later, a man who appears frequently and unflatteringly in the correspondence of Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, showed up to take his medicine ... William A. Sessions, 77, a friend of Flannery O'Connor;s, is mentioned with both irritation and warmth in the letters made public on Saturday. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
How to save a life May 4, 2007
Elie follows Dorothy Day, the radical activist and newspaperwoman; Thomas Merton, the monk and memoirist; Walker Percy, the essayist and novelist and Flannery O'Connor, the writer of novels and short stories. He tracks these four prominent Catholics through the turbulent twentieth century as they find their vocations and try to live the lives they believe God is calling them to lead. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Emory to unveil OConnor letters Apr 26, 2007
ASSOCIATED PRESSThis is a 1962 file photo of author Flannery O'Connor. After two decades of waiting, Emory University is unsealing its collection of hundreds of letters between O'Connor and one of her longtime friends. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Shootings prompt discussion regarding troubled students Apr 24, 2007
It plays a legitimate role in much widely respected literature, from Flannery O'Connor to Franz Kafka and Edgar Allen Poe. "In a creative writing class you encourage students to take risks, not to be afraid to take risks as long as it's in the service of what is hopefully some literary ideal," says Knight, the Tennessee instructor. (CNN -- Education)
New voices from book world: Phil LaMarche Apr 19, 2007
Literary influences: Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, James Ellroy. Celebrity blurb: From Mary Karr (The Liars' Club), LaMarche's former teacher: "The story runs hot as a pistol all the way through.". (USA Today -- Life)
Elizabeth Jolley, writer of 'Australian Gothic' fiction, dies at 83 Apr 13, 2007
But if the critics agreed on anything after trying and repeatedly failing to liken Jolley to other writers - the usual suspects were Barbara Pym, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe - it was that she was ultimately beyond category. "Yo' should 'ave seen the mess after the Venns' Party," a cleaning woman tells her employer in Jolley's short story "Pear Tree Dance." "Broken glass everywhere, blood on the stairs and a whole pile of half-eaten pizzas in the laundry. Some people think... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A stroll down literary lane Apr 11, 2007
Somewhere along the first blocks, where quotes by Black Hawk, Flannery O'Connor, and Tennessee Williams do their best to enliven me, I encounter my first incredulous looks. It's not until the end of the second block that I realize the front of my guidebook is betraying my cool and collected appearance with the title "Hello, I am a tourist and a complete tool." Or something along those lines. (Daily Iowan, IA)
For whom the radiator clangs Mar 6, 2007
" advertisement With "Black Snake Moan," which opened Friday, Brewer seems to be putting himself smack dab back into the cross hairs. The film stars Christina Ricci as a sexually compulsive young woman in rural Mississippi, whose boyfriend (Justin Timberlake) leaves for boot camp; disconsolate, she spends a night drinking, drugging and having indiscriminate sex, finally being found beaten and passed out by a black truck farmer (Samuel L. Jackson). He takes her home and, in a fit of Old Testament... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
He films parables with a wink Mar 5, 2007
" He did it on purpose, he says. He was going for something like Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll. "Black Snake Moan has this absurdity to it, an absurdity that I've loved in plays like A Streetcar Named Desire or the works of August Wilson and Beth Henley, or the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, and even in the music of Stax Records," Brewer says. "Just this Southern sense of the outrageous that makes you feel kind of silly about the idea of there being a racial divide in the South. You feel... (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
- Can I make up my own mind? Writers' favourite books Mar 4, 2007
From the top 10 of all American and British authors, only George Eliot and Flannery O'Connor score consistently. Muriel Spark, Alice Munro, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen (twice), Virginia Woolf are all nominated, but there's no Katherine Mansfield, no Edith Wharton, Iris Murdoch or Margaret Atwood. (Guardian Unlimited)
Craig Brewer on "Black Snake Moan" Feb 28, 2007
" "Black Snake Moan" stars Christina Ricci as nymphomaniac with a history of childhood abuse who turns up, beaten and half-naked, on the doorstep of former blues man Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson). He takes her in, cares for her, and decides to cure her of her reckless tendencies... by chaining her to his radiator. But despite its neo-exploitation set-up, "Black Snake Moan" is a surprisingly earnest tale of redemption and a make-shift family. I caught up with Brewer shortly before the film's... (IFC)
In search of Flannery O'Connor Feb 8, 2007
The writer Flannery O'Connor's desk and typewriter in her bedroom at Andalusia, her farm near Milledgeville, Ga ... I had no fixed destination, just a plan to follow a back road to some weedy field in time to watch the sun go down on Flannery O'Connor's Georgia. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
