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Patrons tell me they like the idea of daily book previews, so here's another installment. Ann's trying to find the time to post a "What I'm Reading," too, for sometime this coming weekend.
NON-FICTION
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph C. Wood
If you're looking for an approachable introduction to one of America's great writers, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better one than this. O'Connor's work, especially her short stories, have a universal significance and Wood argues that her ability to "confront the hardest cultural questions and to propose the profoundest religious answers" is in equal parts drawn from her Roman Catholic upbringing and her attachment to the South.
Did You Know? O'Connor was horrified to be known as a "Southern writer." Chronic disease crippled O'Connor for most of her adult life. What disease did Flannery O'Connor die of?
FICTION
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan
Only by coincidence is this semi-comic, semi-Gothic novel paired with the O'Connor literary biography. And while Sullivan is no Flannery O'Connor, his themes echo those of that literary titan. Set in New Jerusalem, Mississippi, population not enough, it tells the story of sixteen-year-old Beulah Buchanan, a true Southern original.
Did You Know? The New Jerusalem was written by which 18th-century painter/poet? The New Jerusalem is the alternate title to what Carly Simon hit (Hint: You'll remember it from the thoroughly enjoyable 1988 film Working Girl, or as reprised to inspire the nation after 9/11)?
NON-FICTION
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph C. Wood
If you're looking for an approachable introduction to one of America's great writers, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better one than this. O'Connor's work, especially her short stories, have a universal significance and Wood argues that her ability to "confront the hardest cultural questions and to propose the profoundest religious answers" is in equal parts drawn from her Roman Catholic upbringing and her attachment to the South.
Did You Know? O'Connor was horrified to be known as a "Southern writer." Chronic disease crippled O'Connor for most of her adult life. What disease did Flannery O'Connor die of?
FICTION
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan
Only by coincidence is this semi-comic, semi-Gothic novel paired with the O'Connor literary biography. And while Sullivan is no Flannery O'Connor, his themes echo those of that literary titan. Set in New Jerusalem, Mississippi, population not enough, it tells the story of sixteen-year-old Beulah Buchanan, a true Southern original.
Did You Know? The New Jerusalem was written by which 18th-century painter/poet? The New Jerusalem is the alternate title to what Carly Simon hit (Hint: You'll remember it from the thoroughly enjoyable 1988 film Working Girl, or as reprised to inspire the nation after 9/11)?
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