Our “Christmas” issue is finally up and it’s chock full o’Flannery!
Flannery O’Connor is writing Catholic stories. She wants to depict the action of God’s grace in the world, a world that is enemy territory, and with characters who resist His grace, but eventually succumb to it.
- Paul O’Reilly, “Flannery O’Connor and ‘The Enduring Chill’”
…home opposes the dualism of the modern world that separates the physical from the spiritual, and home contradicts the rationalism that denies the spiritual world altogether. Home is the place where the physical and the spiritual are evidently present together.
- Barbara Wheeler, “Flannery O’Connor, Women, and the Home”
Flannery O’Connor served Bruce Springsteen as a bearer of a long tradition of naming sin, which she inherited from reading the Bible, as well as the works of Augustine, Aquinas, Dostoevsky, Joyce, Maritan, Gilson, and Chardin, to name but a few.
- Damian J. Ference, “Naming Sin: Flannery O’Connor’s Mark on Bruce Springsteen”
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A Milledgeville maiden named Flannery
Made up tales about poor Georgiannery;
Yankees thought, ‘How exotic,
Grotesque, and how gothic!’
When Mystery met Southern mannery.