- The Home of Flannery O’Connor Needs Your Help Got this in the mail today from Andalusia, the home of Flannery O’Connor. The town of Milledgeville, Georgia is working to keep Flannery’s old home open and available for literary tourists. We made the trek last winter and had a wonderful, if creepy, time. The place has the air of a haunted mansion, with Flannery’s […]
- This is Why We Love Southern Literature The concept of “the self” has been something that has plagued Americans since our revolution in 1776. Born in rebellion, we have been a nation that has praised our own dominance, bowed down to no one, and yet we continuously struggle with an insecure concept of the true American Self. We live in a nation […]
- When in Rome, Do As You Done in Milledgeville You might not know Milledgeville, Georgia, without which you have read a few stories by a literary lady named Mary Flannery O’Connor. Yes indeed, dear readers, our love of Southern literature knows no manners or bounds. In the midst of a week long vacation, in the middle of southern Georgia, we decided on a whim […]
- Rare audio of Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find” It takes us back to the Deep South, reminds us that Flannery is THE American master of the short story. She is our Chekhov. And thx to Open Culture we can listen to Flannery reading her own infamous, legendary nightmare of a story “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” It’s strange and surprising to […]
