The Sacred and Profane Love podcast on Flannery O’Connor was so amazing. I just made my son listen to it because he also read A Good Man is Hard to Find recently.
I’d love to hear more of your Flannery thoughts. I read that collection of essays (are you teaching the essay or the whole book?) and I think by the end I understood more of what she was doing. I don’t really enjoy it, but it’s not because I find them shocking, I don’t think. Maybe that it’s too easy to believe them? I think by the end I could see the hope.
Thank you for the link to the O’Connor reading. I love her work and Shirley Jackson. They astound me with their ability to create an atmosphere that leaves you feeling the impending twist to what a straightforward, acceptable ending would be for the predictable type of story people assumed a woman would write.
The Sacred and Profane Love podcast on Flannery O’Connor was so amazing. I just made my son listen to it because he also read A Good Man is Hard to Find recently.
https://sacredandprofanelove.com/podcast-item/flannery-oconnor-on-redemptive-love/
No! That’s amazing! That link brought up this deep dive on her work by the podcast host I mentioned. Also worth a spin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY-QjVHIVpo
Ooh, thank you!
Yes, thank you!
We too are traveling with the masses to your neck of the woods this weekend for the Eclipse!
I’d love to hear more of your Flannery thoughts. I read that collection of essays (are you teaching the essay or the whole book?) and I think by the end I understood more of what she was doing. I don’t really enjoy it, but it’s not because I find them shocking, I don’t think. Maybe that it’s too easy to believe them? I think by the end I could see the hope.
Thank you for the link to the O’Connor reading. I love her work and Shirley Jackson. They astound me with their ability to create an atmosphere that leaves you feeling the impending twist to what a straightforward, acceptable ending would be for the predictable type of story people assumed a woman would write.