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• Review: The Tell by Hester Kaplan

  
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  It’s said that two of the most basic plots in literature start with the hero setting off on a journey, or a stranger coming to town. In her new novel, The Tell, Hester Kaplan blends these two themes in an intriguing way: a familiar stranger moves in next door and throws a marriage into crisis, [...] The post ...
  4 days ago

• Story Up My Sleeve #19: “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” by Flannery O’Connor

  
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  [Dont know what this is? See the Story Up My Sleeve background page.] “With the world in the mess it’s in,” [his mother] said, “it’s a wonder we can enjoy anything. I tell you, the bottom rail is on the top.” Julian sighed. “Of course,” she said, “if you know who you are, you can go ...
  5 days ago

• Persistence, Personified

  
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  After months of struggle, The Little Essay That Could finally started its engines, cut loose the string of cars that had been carrying the freight of an idea that didn’t belong and began chugging its way up the hill toward publication. It had been left on a siding, bereft and forlorn, condemned to idleness by my ...
  1 week ago

• Mystery & Manners, the Flannery OConnor QoTW: We Are All Converts

  
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  "When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced labor camps and in fumes of the gas chamber." A Memoir of Mary Ann, p. 19. Frank, my friend Ritas husband, suffers from advanced-stage neuroendicrine cancer. Last week he posted a video (see below) about his ...
  2 weeks ago

• To hell with that

  
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  A parishioner shared this great anecdote with me: The great Flannery O’Connor, at a New York dinner party, responded thus when one of the other guests opined that the Eucharist was a symbol empty of religious truth:  “If it’s a symbol, to hell with that.”  She later said:  “That was all the defense I ...
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• "The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that doesn’t require his attention."

  
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  “The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that doesn’t require his attention.” - Flannery O’Connor , born on this day in 1925 Via .
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• "When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with..."

  
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  “When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax.” - Flannery O’Connor, on her first brush with celebrity. 
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• Flannery Fridays QoTW: Who We Really Are

  
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  "Its considered an absolute necessity these days for writers to have compassion. Compassion is a word that sounds good in anybodys mouth and which no book jacket can do without. It is a quality which no one can put his finger on in any exact critical sense, so it is safe for anybody to use. Usually I think what is ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Them Stories Just Gone and Shown You How Some Folks Would Do.”

  
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  “I lent some stories to a country lady who lives down the road from me, and when she returned them, she said, “Well, them stories just gone and shown you how some folks would do,” and I thought to myself that that was right; when you write stories, you have to be content to start exactly there—showing how ...
  3 weeks ago

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