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I recently did a post on Flannery for her centennial anniversary, encouraging people to listen to some of her stories, or rather one, in her own reading.

Flannery centennial

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March 29, 2025
Flannery centennial

This week was the 100th an. of Flannery O’Connor’s birthday. She had a sense of humor as a writer, but also a desire to show how faith might steal its way into people’s lives. Almost invariably, the figures in her short stories are not people you’d want to befriend or perhaps even meet. It would be shocking if such people were our family members. We wou…

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& I’m also publishing an essay on Flannery in L&L soon, focusing on a couple of short stories like The Enduring Chill & Everything That Rises Must Converge.

But today, I’d like to recommend a conversatio…

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