
Flannery O’Connor Turns 100: A Century of Grace and Grit
COMMENTARY: The Catholic writer’s faith shone through such suffering when she said, ‘I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing ...’
COMMENTARY: The Catholic writer’s faith shone through such suffering when she said, ‘I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing ...’
When my children are adults, I hope that they remember with fondness our family road trips, especially this one.
COMMENTARY: O’Connor’s enjoyment of the natural world, despite the terribly debilitating dis-ease she suffered from, was in keeping with her philosophy of life.
COMMENTARY: Catholicism immersed her writing, but it was often covert to the uninitiated like me.
BOOK PICK: ‘Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist’
The writer has the uncanny ability to bring people of all stripes together in one place — saints and sinners alike.
Actress Maya Hawke portrays O’Connor, and her father, Ethan Hawke, directed, co-wrote, and produced the film.
COMMENTARY: Novelist of grace and grittiness said: ‘I write the way I do because and only because I am a Catholic.’
Southern sensibility suggests slowing down to get a fair read of novelist Flannery O’Connor
O’Connor, writing to a priest friend, made a comment that revealed her compassion and humility: ‘The thing about Lourdes is that you are not inclined to pray there for yourself …’
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