Hey y'all: I'm new here and wanted to shoot y'all a quick introduction. I'm Jon in Austin. Worked on my BA in English and worked on my MA in Fayetteville AR....
Heya John, nice to see some new blood. Besides our recent influx of mortgage specialists and off-brand medical hucksters that is (sorry for letting that get...
Thanks for the welcome! "New blood here," all right: just don't call me new "wise" blood. :) "Everything That Rises" was my 2nd introduction to FOC -- the...
There, I corrected the spelling of your name in the "Re" at least :-) Pretty good "from memory" quote. Thass about right! I loved that "selling typewriters is...
That's an excellent way of putting it: "I don't think the concept of the 'sympathetic character' really exists in her fiction." When I was a TA in grad...
About that alternate ending for "A Temple Of The Holy Ghost". I've had a good head scratch about that one and I think you may be wrong. Unfortunately my copy...
Thanks for the info Steve. One thing is for sure: the book I had it in I no longer own. But in that same anthology, it also had 2 pages of the story she was...
Jon, the name of that two page piece was "Why Do The Heathen Rage" and had O'Connor lived longer would probably have formed the start of another novel - well...
Steve: I'm sure even O'Connor would have been pleased not to have made it given the Ivory Tower dwellings many of those literary folk inhabit. That thought did...
I wasn't as fortunate as you were Jon, to cut my 'fiction' teeth on O'Connor, not encountering her until I was 54 (10 years ago). But since then reading other...
Letter from Katherine Mansfield to S. S. Koteliansky* August 1922 I hope you are better. If you need a doctor, Sorapure is a good man – intelligent and...
Steve: Hey man. I do remember "Miss Brill" in high school, I just didn't remember it was K. Mansfield. At some later date I read a story I think is called...
Yes Jon, I too noticed that Malamud collection referenced in Habit of Being and though I know it's available locally so far I've not felt tempted to indulge -...
Steve: Reading _The Magic Barrel_ I could immediately see why FOC liked Malamud. Insofar as she had a fear of being labled "a regional writer" (...as for...
In the sense that EVERY writer of fiction uses a setting, EVERY story teller is regional; whether the region be Hobbiton, Outer Space, NYC or NZ. The term...
sSteve: You're right about the regional writer thing. Just like everything an author writes is in some sense autobiographical, every setting a writer uses is...
Yes John and you are right when you talk about that cringe factor - O'Connor fearful of being lumped in with the Mrs Twillobees in the same way I guess that if...
Steve, how awesome that you mentioned Katherine Mansfield. I don't know if she's been brought up before in this forum but to my mind, she joins FOC in a sort...
I first read Flannery O'Connor 15 years ago or so, and I thought it was great, even though I didn't get a lot of what was going on, at least not consciously. I...
L: Wow, trying to figure out how I think FOC is different from Faulkner is kind of blowing my mind. I mean, I have a strong opinion that their art, the aim of...
I am wondering, is there a resource online where you can access complete short story text? Of the likes of FOC say?? Or Katherine Anne Porter? All the classic...
Mermaid Scar, I think you will find most of those good writer's material is still protected by copyright which although technically expiring 50 or maybe 60...
Jon, I have her Collected Works from the Library of America, but I suppose it is high time I got my own copy of _HoB_. Actually, I had an idea about the ...
I found a few things on GeoCities by searching part of the title of the story in question and the author's last name. That might be a good place to start. ...
LM I love _HoB_. My copy is getting pretty beat up so it's about time for me to get another one. I'm going to look into getting it hard bound if that's...
Hey, per my last email, would you mind if I made a poll in FlanneryOConnorFanPage for people who'd want to tell whether or not they're Catholic or not and how...
Hi Jon, usually plenty of hardback Habit of Beings on abebooks.com but I think I'd stick with the limp cover and reinforce the outside spine and cover for a...
Jon, I wish my graduate professor liked my ideas as well as you did! I didn't include that exact sentence in my message to him; maybe I should have. As it is,...
LM: "she respected earnest Protestants as much as she respected earnest Catholics." Oh, yes she did! It looks to me like the thing she didn't respect was...
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