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News for February

A request from a visitor looking for audio of O'Connor reading her own work led me to The Morning Oil, where I found WMA files of O'Connor reading "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and one of her lectures on aspects of the grotesque in Southern fiction. If you are on a device that won't play WMA format, try the MP3s at Black Market Kidneys.

Georgia artist Ande Cook recently finished a portrait of O'Connor and shares the process on her Chickory blog. It's interesting to watch her work progress from sketch to finished painting and see how Flannery still inspires people today.

Glenn C. Arbery's article "Ontological Splendor: Flannery O’Connor in the Protestant South"examines the reality of O'Connor's southern identity reflected in her fiction, particulalry "Good Country People".

In the National Catholic Reporter, Sr. Rose Pacatte considers O'Connor's relevance to today's audience with her article "Teaching a Chicken to Walk Backwards". The sly title should include a wink and a nod because, while she does mention O'Connor's talented chicken (which sparked a discussion here on Comforts a while ago), her article highlights the currents stirred up by O'Connor's fiction in popular culture including The Passion of the Christ and Lost. In the case of this article, the titular chicken is us.

PBS Religion and Ethics Weekly contains a fantastic Flannery O'Connor episode that includes interviews with Ralph Wood, Brad Gooch, Bruce Gentry and people influenced by O'Connor's work. 

Professor Amy Hungerford teaches the OpenYale course on "The American Novel Since 1945", and you may be particularly interested in her lectures on Wise Blood. (Thanks to Joe Johnson for the tip.)

We've noticed a rising interest in film adaptations of O'Connor's fiction, and while Hollywood hasn't taken up the challenge recently (which might be a good thing), several productions have already translated O'Connor's stories to the screen.

Thanks to the efforts of the Flannery O'Connor-Adalusia Foundation anyone can now visit Andalusia, the farm where O'Connor spent much of her adult life and wrote most of her stories.

Biography: Who was Mary Flannery O'Connor?

Online Essays: Criticism of O'Connor's work on the Internet. Many of these are "scholarly," but there are several non-academic articles here as well, so be careful if you use them for a paper.

Books : Works by and about O'Connor available online or at your local bookstore.

(If you want to see everything Amazon offers on O'Connor, you can use this connection that searches anything tagged Flannery O'Connor.)

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