Flannery O'Connor

[lesabell15]

i love his mustache.

[jaredknockout91]

BEST MUSTACHE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bagelfanatic]

Just as a quickie--

Flannery O'Connor is a Catholic, not a Christian, a distinction that should be important to any student/critic of O'Connor.

[rsbk7]

@bagelfanatic Catholicism is part of Christianity. All Catholics are Christians, and O'Connor often identified herself as such. I find the Christianity that underlies and shapes her fiction to be of a very universal nature, so the "distinction" you claim should be important in a larger sense really is not.

[jkculberson]

@bagelfanatic Catholic as opposed to Protestant, not as opposed to Christian. It is clear to anyone with an eye for the distinction between those two adjectives that the influence of her Christianity in a broad sense was expressed in her stories by means of her Roman Catholic (specifically Thomist) mindset.

[DanielTokyo]

Well done! I enjoyed watching your O'Connor comments. I am an American living in Tokyo for the past ten years. I majored in English Lit. and fell in love with her writing. She is without a doubt the best writer that I have come across in all of my years. Even now at the age of 37, I go back and reread her stories. Believe it or not, I have only one story that I have not read: The Violent Bear It Away. I just found one at a used book shop in Tokyo and will read it this week.