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Online O'Connor Resources
Most Recommended
Before you go
anywhere else, be sure to stop by the O'Connor Collection in the Russell Library, at Georgia
College. This is THE original site about O'Connor, and a wonderful resource.
Nancy
Marshall photographed Flannery O'Connor's farm in 2007 and 2008, and
she shares her experience in her Andalusia
Photo Essay.
Study Guides
One of the best all-around pages I've seen on O'Connor would have to be the Student's Guide to Flannery O'Connor, a place with reviews, paper topic suggestions, and even a trip to Milledgeville.
The New York University Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database has annotations for some of O'Connor's short fiction, as well as interesting information on other subjects.
If
you need succinct summaries of O'Connor's fiction (or the work of other major
literary figures) stop by StoryBites.
Looking for story summaries, photographs, and literary
analysis? Then The Aesthetics of Incongruity has just what you're after. This site is a bit graphics heavy and takes a minute to load up.
Clubs and Groups
Care to exchange messages about O'Connor's work, or chat with other O'Connor fans? Hop on over to the Flannery O'Connor Fan Club, and join your fellow O'Connor
aficionados.
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.
The
O'Connor Childhood Home Foundation
has fought to preserve O'Connor's residence in Savannah. While
it's geared toward tourists, the foundation holds regular events
such as readings and lectures.
Audio
and Video
The WMFU
blog has an interesting entry from one of the DJs on his
obsession with O'Connor that includes links to related material
including O'Connor short stories read aloud. By the way, WMFU has
a playlist
archive in Real Audio of their program featuring O'Connor
giving her lecture on "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in
Southern Fiction" and reading her short story "A Good
Man is Hard to Find". (I don't know how long this archive
will be around, so if you want future access to the audio, you
should save it.)
UbuWeb
contains loads of recorded poetry and fiction, but also includes
an interesting video project called Cinema
of Transgression. If you look about halfway down the page
you'll find Jeri Cain Rossi's adaptation of "A Good Man is
Hard to Find" into a short film called "Black Hearts
Bleed Red".
More About O'Connor Country
Learn more about Milledgeville, former capital of Georgia, and Flannery O'Connor's home for much of her life.
Georgia isn't all peanuts and pick-up trucks. Read up on two of the most peculiar places you'll find in the Peach State.
Who would have thought that Georgia had it's own Stonehenge? Maybe it's a little smaller than the one in Britain, but ours have a name: Guidestones to an Age of Reason.
Just outside O'Connor's home town, is a highway sign that points to a Bird of a Different Feather.
Books!
Looking for good old-fashioned paper and ink resources on O'Connor?
You'll find a list of must-reads here.
Other Links of Interest to the Literary Type
San Antonio College hosts a database of American Women Writers. If you like O'Connor, you owe it to yourself to check out Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and a host of other talented writers, and the LitWeb is a great starting place.
Are you up for some experimental fiction, avant-garde poetry, and surreal imagery? Yep, you can find
all three at Sein
und Werden.
Todd Heldt is a poet, and fellow academic.
(There's no O'Connor info here, but some interesting things nonetheless.)
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