Comments on: “The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor”

By: Rita Mae

Rita Mae — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:32:55 +0000

You might want to try The Life You Save May Be Your Own, the biography that Paul Elie did of O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Walker Percy. It’s an excellent book and contains the best biography of O’Connor I’ve read.

By: girldetective

girldetective — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:19:07 +0000

Jennifer, that is exactly the story, and exactly the kind of power I felt reading these stories. It had a parallel with a theme in the manuscript of one of the women in my writing group, too, which made it still timely. And even with Stuff White People Like, which has more than one entry on earnest liberals who want to be open minded yet are often obliviously inept about it.

By: Jennifer Reese

Jennifer Reese — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:01:39 +0000

I read this in high school and then again later, just once, and the story about the contemptuous young man and his mother on the bus — is that Everything Rises? — has never left me. It flashes on my mind regularly, had real power for me. I’m glad you’re back!

By: Cindy Swanson

Cindy Swanson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:55:00 +0000

I’ve yet to read anything by Flannery O’Connor, though I’ve wanted to for a while! In the show “Lost,” (my favorite TV show of all time) when a book showed up, it was always signficant. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” was one of those books.

Great blog!

Cindy @ Cindy’s Book Club

By: Carol in Oregon

Carol in Oregon — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:26:51 +0000

Thank you for this. I’m in the nascent stages of an O’Connor education. A friend recommended starting with her letters.

I shrink back a bit from delving into the stories. It seems they require some effort, but you remind me that it will be worth it.

I love stories that stick with me.