Showing posts with label Flannery O'Connor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flannery O'Connor. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2011

A. J. Liebling, Jean Stafford, Walker Percy, and the 1962 National Book Award for The Moviegoer

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Jim Santel’s beautiful recent essay in The Millions revisiting how The Moviegoer changed his life “like a slow-release drug” reminds us th...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Tom Perrotta on superiority and vulnerability in Flannery O’Connor’s satire

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In the latest of her continuing series focusing on “a specific piece of writing” that has influenced a writer or critic, Jenny Attiyeh disc...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Kenneth Holditch remembers Tennessee Williams for his 100th birthday

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Guest blog post by Kenneth Holditch, co-editor of the two-volume Library of America collection, Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1980 In Jan...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Emma Straub on her formative influences: Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver

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Other People We Married by Emma Straub (FiveChapters Books, 2011) Continuing the series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, hist...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Looking back: The most popular Story of the Week selections and Reader’s Almanac posts

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The beginning of the year prompts moments of reflection. Looking back on 2010 The Library of America has been heartened by the warm receptio...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Flannery O'Connor: the writer vs. the believer

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There’s a lively debate currently energizing the posts at Big Questions Online over whether a letter Flannery O’Connor wrote in 1958 to a f...
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