Porch Sitting With Elizabeth Wylie at Andalusia Farm
An interview with the new director of Flannery O'Connor's house museum in Milledgeville, Georgia.
Literary Friday, Edition 156
Chat with Kirker Butler, a Southern Gothic fiction contest, Flannery O'Connor's classics get a new look, the Decatur Book Festival in Literary Events, plus a poem about Zinnias. Happy Literary Friday!
Crackers and Collard Greens: A Floridian's Southernness
At 23 years old, I am the motorbus baby, the youngest rider by at least three or four decades on this 60-person tour. I have recently graduated from college in Orlando, Florida, and I have moved back home
Fall For Literary Savannah
Uncover Savannah's literary greats among graceful architecture, oak-lined parks and a few lingering spirits.
Literary Friday, Edition 128
Twitter chat with Natalie Baszile and Lalita Tademy, Brenda Currin on filming 'In Cold Blood,' a day of giving for Flannery's Farm and new fiction about women trying to leave their husbands. Happy Literary Friday!
Literary Friday, Edition 123
'Compulsion' for Southern lit giveaway, photos from Eat Drink Read Write, Louisiana Book Festival interviews with James Wilcox and Laura Lane McNeal and a poem and a story about New Orleans. Happy Literary Friday!
Flannery on Film
Good Country Pictures makes headway in bringing the Southern Gothic writer's stories to film and television.
Literary Friday, Edition 96
Celebrating Tennessee Williams' birthday week, Flannery O'Connor's homemade parade and a prequel to Gone With the Wind, lots of Literary Events and a story about the French lady who opened the first gay cabaret nightclub in Lafayette, Louisiana. Happy Literary Friday!
Faulkner & Flannery Notes – Week 5
Spring 2014 Books & Film Class Topic – Faulkner & Flannery: Exploring the Southern Gothic Held Wednesdays through February 26 at UL Lafayette Instructor: Dr. Mary Ann Wilson This is the final set of class notes on this topic. In the final class, we watched John Huston's 1979 film version of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. Reading the book wasn't required and the movie can stand alone, but Wise Blood is a wacky story and a must-read for any O'Connor fan. Her first novel, Wise Blood was published in 1952 and received little attention at the time. The first chapter is an expansion of her master's thesis, "The Train,' from the University of Iowa, and other chapters are reworked versions of short stories she wrote. You'd never know that from reading it though. Wise Blood is a cohesive story that's very clearly written. While strange and extreme, it's also very O'Connor and incorporates all of her favorite themes to perfection. If you consider the time period, O'Connor was working on her prayer journal, released earlier this year, at the same time as Wise Blood. She was envisioning herself as a writer like she never had before and also struggling with her faith, asking God to "make me a