Flannery O'Connor has been one of my favorite authors for years, so much so, that I want to name our yet-to-be-conceived daughter "Flannery." (Don't judge: take a look at those vapid names you've named your children!) After reading and teaching her over the years, I've never heard her speak.
Until this morning.
I found this blog post that has two readings by Flannery, one on Southern Gothic and the other a reading of her "A Good Man is Hard to Find." At the very least, download and listen to "Good Man," the oft-anthologized story that has a callous murderer as the Christ figure: "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
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Wow. Thanks so much for this. FOC is one of those rare breed of writers you can read again and again and never grow tired of nor cease to be amazed by. Will be nice to put a voice to her voice.
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