Flannery Oconnor

The River Witch Is an Impressive First Novel

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Flannery O'Connor, Kimberly Brock, Carson McCullers, Georgia Islands, Southern Writers, The River Witch, Video, Books News

The River Witch tells a story of the deep South with all its mystery, strangeness and distinction. Its essence brings to mind memories of the stories of Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers.

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Famous Authors’ Bizarre Obsessions

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Book News, Author Trivia, Author Obsessions, Victor Hugo, Famous Authors, Martin Amis, Flannery-Oconnor, Patti Smith, Author Facts, Books News

By Emily Temple for Flavorwire: We tend to put our favorite authors on a pedestal, and in some ways when we do that, we turn them into characters t...

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8 Writing Tips From Flannery O'Connor

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Nanowrimo, Flannery O'Connor, Books, Writing, Novels, Happiness Tips, Literature Habits, Creativity Challenge, Books News

Flannery O'Connor's collected letters have been published in The Habit of Being. These letters are fascinating, and among other thing, include some interesting advice and observations about writing.

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Clearing Clutter? Think About Appearances, Too

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Folding, Flannery O'Connor, Relationships, Order, Clothes, Tidiness, Home, Happiness, Clutter, Healthy Living News

Outer order contributes to inner calm. It's not such a big deal to have a messy coat closet or a crowded desk -- yet I get a surprising rush of happiness and relief when I clear clutter.

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On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books

Angela Flournoy | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Literature, Regional-Dialects, Dialect, Ebonics, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Dialect in Literature, Postbourgie, Ebonics Literature, Literature Dialect, Writing Dialects, Writing Dialogue, Ebonics in Literature, African American Literature, Black Voices News

A recent conversation about Ebonics got me to thinking about Faulkner and James Baldwin, and the way certain dialects in this country get no respect.

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Hymns, Harrows, Harvests & More: Chatting with John Hiatt, Gillian Welch and Umphrey's McGee's Joel Cummins

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Jim Keltner, Alison Krauss, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Lost Boys, Norman Blake, Queen, Hall & Oates, The Blue Sky Boys, John Hiatt, The Stanley Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Tim O'Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Habit of Being, Joe Clark, Ryan Stasik, Jimmy Stewart, Dave Rawlings, Roger Taylor, Elvis Costello, B.B. King, The Monroe Brothers, Umphrey's Mcgee, The Delmore Brothers, The Jeff Healey Band, T-Bone Burnett, The Artist's Way, Ralph Stanley, The Everly Brothers, Paul Newman, Little Village, Molly O'Brien, Ry Cooder, Brendan Bayliss, Flannery O'Connor, Gillian Welch, Nick Lowe, Mike Miro, Richard Thompson, Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment News

John Hiatt's new album Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns kicks off with a pretty universally themed song, "Damn This Town." It's true, no matter what town you grow up in, every kid can't wait to get out of it.

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Fortune Teller Miracle Fish: The Short Story Is Back

Jenny Block | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Fortune Teller Miracle Fish, Cathryn Hankla, Flannery O'Connor, Books, Books News

If you are new to the short story, if you think them above or beneath you, if you've never given them a second thought, think of this as an invitation to a genre that will certainly surprise you.

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The Weirdest Writing Habits Of Famous Authors

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Weird Writing Habits, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Famous Authors, Writing, Books News

From Flavorwire: It's an old topic but it always manages to be interesting -- what did the authors we love do in order to write what they did? Beyo...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Michael Tully on Septien

Dan Persons | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Onur Tukel, Sports, Spirit of the Beehive, Flannery O'Connor, Outsider Art, Football, Robert Longstreet, Southern Gothic, Michael Tully, Septien, Entertainment News

The tale of three brothers travels a strange, twisted, and ultimately fascinating route. Septien essentially delights in its own impertinence -- fortunately, it's charming enough to get away with it.

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Flannery O'Connor: You May Know Her Prose, But Have You Seen Her Cartoons?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: James Thurber, Marjane Satrapi, Flannery O'connor Stories, Flannery O'connor Cartoons, Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Books News

Flannery O'Connor is best remembered for her potent fictions, and to a lesser extent for her unfortunate life (she eked out the last decade and a half...

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250 Books By Women All Men Should Read

Joyland | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Women Writers, Books by Women, Flannery O'Connor, Women's Books, Women's Fiction, Books News

Esquire reposted a slide show of 75 books all men should read. The books are mostly fantastic and the headline phrasing didn't much bug us. After all,...

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10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Short Stories, J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories, Best Short Stories, The Dead, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Carver, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Books News

As a fitting finale to National Short Story Month, we asked the talented crew over at One Story to name their ten favorite epigrammatic tales. Tanya R...

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10 Novels That Will Disturb Even The Coldest Of Hearts

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: George R.R. Martin, Invisible Man, Henry Miller, Blindness, Blood Meridian, Bret Easton Ellis, Margaret Atwood, Ralph Ellison, American Psycho, Flannery O'Connor, J.M. Coetzee, Tropic Pof Cancer, Disgrace, Cormac McCarthy, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Handmaid's Tale, Disturbing Novels, Books News

Jezebel-writer Anna North’s debut novel, America Pacifica, is out today. The story centers around an impoverished teenage girl who is struggling to ...

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Reading In Public

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reading in Public, Born to Run, Plato, Carson McCullers, Flaubert, Christopher Mcdougall, Dorian Gray, Slidepollajax, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Madame Bovary, Spotted Reading Publicly, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Flannery O'Connor, Books News

It's been too long since we've shared with you the pulse of the people. It's a little segment we like to call Reading In Public! Here's how it works:...

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Short Stories

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Blake Butler, Modernism, Flannery O'Connor, Postmodernism, Independent Presses, Novels, American Fiction, Mfa Programs, T C Boyle, Experimental Fiction, Creative Writing, Books News

A short story is like a toothache and you must drill it and fill it. A novel is more like bridgework.

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Flannery O'Connor for Congress

Joe Woodward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Politics, Congress, Flannery O'Connor, Writing, Reading, Nathanael West, Allen Ginsberg, President, Biography, Books News

When you find yourself agreeing with one of those Sunday morning talking heads, remember, it's like carnival food -- it tastes good, but it isn't good for you.

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An Apology for Women's Literature

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cate Marvin, Jodi Picoult, Flannery O'Connor, Carol Muske-Dukes, Jennifer Weiner, Women's Literature, Women Authors, New York Times Book Review, Books News

Sisters, let's be honest. We write books. But if you look at the fact that so many more works by men are reviewed in major journals, our "books" are not what the establishment deems noteworthy.

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What Makes Art "Christian?": Flannery O'Connor, Sufjan Stevens, and Vocation

Christopher Cocca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Saul Bellow, Tolkien, Leonard Cohen, Flannery O'Connor, Art, Sufjan Stevens, Indie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Christian, Vocation, Catholic, Religion News

The questions ought to be: does this song make us stop? Does this book make us think? Does this art feel like the suffering we know and the hope we hope for anyway?

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Iowa Writers' Workshop Graduate Spills It All: Interview with John McNally, Author of "After the Workshop"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

I thought McNally, because he has experienced the Iowa Writers' Workshop firsthand--and lived to tell the funniest tale ever written about it--would be an ideal subject to interview about a lot of concerns in the writing and publishing industries.

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'Lost' Reading List: Literary Influences From Stephen King To Flannery O'Connor

Los Angeles Times | Liesl Bradner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flannery O'Connor, Lost Books, Damon Lindelof, Reading, Carlton Cuse, Stephen King, Books, Lost, Watership Down, Books News

Ever since Sawyer was shown reading "Watership Down" in Season One of "Lost," an abundance of carefully placed works of literature have been featured...

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: See Who Won (LIST)

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Claudette Colvin, Fiction, National Book Award Winners List, National Book Award Winners, Keith Waldrop, Winners, National Book Awards, Colum McCann, Bestsellers, Flannery O'Connor, TJ Stiles, Who Won, National Book Award, Non-Fiction, Philip Hoose, Slidepoll, Books News

The National Book Awards were announced last night at an event which also honored Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers. Check out the winners below, and vote on...

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Sick of Sarah Palin's Book? Let's Talk About Writing And The Writers' Writer

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writers, Writing, Literary Prizes, Best Writing, Best Writers, Writer's Writers, Slidepoll, William Gass, Paul Bowles, Henry Green, Barry Hannah, Jane Bowles, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Flannery O'Connor, George Saunders, Alice Munro, Books News

These last two weeks seem to be all about books by non-writers and we felt it was time to change the conversation. We asked writers--colleagues and fr...

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