Novelist and short story writer Flannery O'Connor is an icon of American literature, but she got her first taste of fame by teaching a chicken to walk backwards. Brad Gooch's biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, takes a detailed look at the writer 45 years after her death.
Event: Brad Gooch will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, March 10, at 7:00 pm
Book Culture
West 112th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam
For more information call 212-865-1588 or visit the Book Culture website.
Brad Gooch will be speaking
Thursday, March 12, at 7:00 pm
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street
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Comments [4]
Years ago, I read a couple of her short stories because I'd heard that she wrote about the South and race.
In my experience of the world, dark feelings and religiosity are often entwined. I don't know why this is so surprising. Just think of all the twisted sex scandals among the evangelicals.
Leonard,
About Conan O'Brien's Harvard Thesis was: "Literary Progeria in the works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner."
He says,"Let's just say that, during my discussions on my show with Pauly Shore, it doesn't come up much."
Ask Brad whether he was aware of the influence of O'Connor's short stories on Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska record! Thanks.
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