Colum McCann wins national award Nov 20, 2009
A special prize, voted on by the public, was given to "The Complete Stories" of Flannery O'Connor as the best of all fiction winners in the awards' history. Finalists included story collections by Eudora Welty and John Cheever, and Ralph Ellison's novel "Invisible Man.". (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
interview with Cormac McCarthy Nov 17, 2009
Someone asked Flannery O'Connor why she wrote, and she said, "Because I was good at it." And I think that's the right answer. If you're good at something it's very hard not to do it. (Harper's Magazine)
Grisham's short stories long on characters Nov 8, 2009
As a kid, I recall reading short stories by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens and even as a young student, the great authors - Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Hemingway. (Athens Banner-Herald)
John Grisham's short stories long on characters Nov 5, 2009
A: As a kid I recall reading short stories by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens and even as a young student, the great authors Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Hemingway. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Grisham's Short Story Collection in Demand Nov 4, 2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2009. "A Time to Kill" Author Releases Collection of Short Stories Based on His Years as a Lawyer; Sparks Publishing Price War. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Tycoon tales and Darwin get award nominations Oct 15, 2009
The choices include Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" and story collections by Cheever, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty. "I think that the tension between commerce and art exists in any cultural industry," says Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation, which sponsors the awards. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Parker: As Twitter meets TMI, it's our humanity that's miscarried Oct 7, 2009
Where, oh, where is Flannery O'Connor when we need her. If she were still roaming around Milledgeville, we can be fairly certain she wouldn't be tweeting. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Academics gather to dissect Springsteen legend Sep 30, 2009
References abounded to the likes of writers Jack Kerouac and Flannery O'Connor; Springsteen has said O'Connor's work helped inspire the "Nebraska" album. There were down-home moments, as well. (MSNBC -- Music)
You can't make this stuff up Sep 13, 2009
MIDDLE-AGED TERM PAPERS. At the Augusta Philomathic meeting last week, Naomi Williams proved she's still got it when it comes to teaching when she presented her paper on Flannery O'Connor. Ms. Williams taught school in Augusta for 38 years, first at Langford Middle School, then Westside High and Augusta Prep before retiring about 15 years ago. (The Augusta Chronicle)
English classes taking a 'readwhatever you want' approach Sep 13, 2009
In her brief but very trenchant essay, "Fiction Is a Subject with a History -- It Should Be Taught That Way," the novelist Flannery O'Connor concisely demolished this confusion. "Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. ... In other ages, the attention of children was held by Homer and Virgil, among others, but by the reverse evolutionary process, that is no longer possible; our children are too stupid now to enter the past imaginatively. No one... (NJ.com -- Times)
Flannery O'Connor's violence, religion Aug 21, 2009
Flannery O'Connor: A 'contrary' woman's legacy - CNN.com ... Flannery O'Connor: A 'contrary' woman's legacy ... New biography of Flannery O'Connor offers insights on Southern author. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Another Great Short Story About a Cowardly Adulterer Jul 27, 2009
Nearly every story throbs with menace, which often appears in the form of an unsavory character that will feel very familiar to anyone who has read a lot of Raymond Carver or Flannery O'Connor. Seeing as children see but with an adult grasp of turpitude is another old device in short fiction. (Slate)
Robert Strange McNamara, a Man for the Soulless Age Jul 11, 2009
"Since the 18th century," Flannery O'Connor observed with her usual uncanny knack for observing such things, "the popular spirit of each succeeding age has tended more and more to the view that the ills and mysteries of life will eventually fall before the scientific advances of man, a belief that is still going strong even though this is the first generation to face total extinction because of those advances." It wasn't that he didn't realize what was happening. After the first 25,000 American... (Townhall.com)
The Audio Book Club on John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor Jun 19, 2009
Our critics discuss John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor ... To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of John Cheever's "The Swimmer" and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," click the arrow on the player below. (Slate)
Literary tourists' flock to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia farm May 26, 2009
Andalusia Farm, where Flossie lives, was the home of author Flannery O'Connor. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the farm, in the town of Milledgeville in the heart of Georgia, is one of those fabled places where visitors come, even despite it remoteness. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
The Audio Book Club on Atmospheric Disturbances May 22, 2009
If you'd like to get an early start on the next book club selection, pick up copies of "" by John Cheever and by Flannery O'Connor. Watch forand listen toour discussion of "The Swimmer" and A Good Man Is Hard To Find in June. (Slate)
A love song for Bobby Lounge, a true original Apr 28, 2009
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY NEW ORLEANS He summons the barrelhouse piano of Jerry Lee Lewis, the flash of Little Richard, the yarn-spinning bite of Tom Waits and the unsentimental Southern Gothic surrealism of Flannery O'Connor. Bobby Lounge is no lounge act. (USA Today)
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is ... Apr 2, 2009
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Motif of Old Southern values as evidenced by the grandmother ... Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" ... Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find". (Suite101.com)
Details in new biography obscure the full Cheever Mar 12, 2009
Another intriguing figure in American letters is the subject of a new biography, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch (Little, Brown, $30). O'Connor died at 39 in 1964 from lupus, but her fiction, including Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, continues to attract admirers. (USA Today -- Life)
Flannery O'Connor -- quiet life, disturbing fiction Mar 9, 2009
"One hundred years later, Flannery O'Connor, like Hawthorne, grounding her strange fiction in her homeland, the South, felt a kinship with the Yankee writer.Speaking on the topic "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" in 1960, O'Connor cited Hawthorne for his ability to raise fiction from the ordinariness of life and "steer it in the direction of poetry ... "Her life was cut short by lupus. O'Connor died at 39 in 1964 after a 14-year battle with the same disease that killed her... (Sioux City Journal)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
The celebrated get their dueHarriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrisonand so do the forgotten: Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Emma Lazarus, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Meridel LeSueur, Ann Petry, and a host of others. Who decides which subjects matter; what voice is appropriate for what kind of story; what books get... (Slate)
Local author's writing reflects her Southern past Mar 6, 2009
They reminded me of the fiction of other Southern writers like Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Critics refer to such characters and situations as Southern grotesque, not that the South has a monopoly on the grotesque. (Fulton Sun, MO)
The habit of seeing Mar 1, 2009
Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation ... In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus ... Readers have had to wait a long time for this first major biography, "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor," by Brad Gooch. (Boston Globe)
Book review: "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor Feb 28, 2009
Book review: "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor - International Herald Tribune Book review: "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor ... A Life of Flannery O'Connor. (International Herald Tribune)
Southern literature's strange bird Feb 25, 2009
What connects the late Flannery O'Connor and Brad Gooch, her most recent biographer, is a combination of timely circumstances, the kind Gooch likens to magic anytime he pairs up with a particular subject ... "The worst that could happen is that I'd be writing about Flannery O'Connor, who is a great subject." ... Titled "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor," the 385-page work documents her upbringing in Savannah and Milledgeville, where she died at 39 from lupus. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Heart and Soul Feb 15, 2009
Ochsner has won more than 20 awards for her writing, including the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Oregon Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award, the Raymond Carver Prize, and the Chelsea Award for Short Fiction. She was one of 50 writers awarded a 2006 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, allowing her to do research in Latvia and Russia for two novels-in-progress, The Persuasion of Water and Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. (Sioux City Journal)
Iowa workshop alum Andrew Porter to read from award-winning book Feb 11, 2009
As graduate Andrew Porter receives a Flannery O'Connor award for his short-story collection, the Writers' Workshop can share in yet another honor. He will read and discuss excerpts from his award-winning work, *The Theory of Light and Matter*, today at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St.. (Daily Iowan, IA)
