Tag Archives: Flannery O’Connor

Friday links: O’Connor, Pynchon, book sculptures & more

• Four YA authors are hitting the road this summer on the Young Authors Give Back Tour, holding signings, panel discussions, and even offering workshops to aspiring writers between the ages of 13 and 22. • Open Culture has posted a … Continue reading

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Friday links: Flannery O’Connor, book vending machines, and bidding adieu to Women’s History Month

• Earlier this week, we wished Flannery O’Connor a Happy Birthday. Then Writers’ Houses allowed us to take a tour of the stately Savannah, Georgia, townhouse where she grew up. The best part? The picture (right) of her intently reading as … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Flannery O’Connor

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. • Flannery O’Connor • (Check out Flannery O’Connor on The Book Case and BookPage.com.)

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Friday links

• The 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists were announced earlier this week: Threats by Amelia Gray, Kind One by Laird Hunt, Hold It ’Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson, Watergate by Thomas Mallon, and Everything Begins and Ends … Continue reading

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Weekly links: ‘Twilight’ by famous authors, Dave Egger’s shower curtain, tweeting authors

io9.com shared Lizzie Stark’s answers that age-old question: What if great literary writers of the last 200 years had penned Twilight instead? For example: Flannery O’Connor: When Native American werewolf Jacob threatens her with death, Bella reconsiders her hardcore racism, … Continue reading

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Faulkner or Flannery? (Or Cheever, Ellison…)

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the National Book Awards, the National Book Foundation is asking the public to vote on the best of their fiction award-winners. Actually, we can vote on the best of six finalists. A panel of … Continue reading

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