Post Tagged 'Flannery O’Connor'

March 25, 2025

Flannery O’Connor at 100

It’s jarring, maybe, to think of Flannery O’Connor as an old lady. Then again, to our eyes, in photographs from the last years of her life, maybe she looks already old. Continue Reading...

May 29, 2024

Wildcat’s Revelation of Grace—Whether We Like It or Not

A piece of art, completed, represents a long series of choices, from the first choice that artist made to pay attention to the tugging on the edge of his mind to the final daub of paint, deleted comma, or scrape on stone. Continue Reading...

March 12, 2024

There the Story Stops: Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?

After a silence of nearly 60 years, following her untimely death from lupus, Flannery O’Connor’s hitherto-unpublished prose rises from the page like one of her own fictional epiphanies—electric, immediate, and alive. Continue Reading...

July 06, 2015

Christopher Dawson and the Dynamics of History

On June 17, 2015, Bradley Birzer taught a course at Acton University entitled “Christopher Dawson and the Dynamics of History” in which he outlined the life and thought of the great historian. Continue Reading...

April 16, 2014

The Counterculture World Of Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor had a brilliant but short literary career. She died in 1964 at the age of 39 due to complications from lupus, yet managed to leave behind a legacy of keen insight into the human condition of sin, in ways some considered repulsive. Continue Reading...

April 28, 2009

PBR: Film and the Felix culpa

We welcome guest blogger Bruce Edward Walker, Communications Manager for the Property Rights Network at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. This week’s PBR question is: “How should conservatives engage Hollywood?” Continue Reading...