Archive for June, 2008


O’Connor’s “Good Country People” on film

I didn’t know anyone had adapted Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” but somebody has posted ’60s-era short, attributed to Gary Graver, at YouTube. Richard Grayson writes: “Wow, I can just imagine how O’Connor would have hated this. As she said about the Schlitz Playhouse version of ‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own,’ with Gene Kelly(!): ‘The best I . . .

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From Gilead to Home

PW enters a rave for Marilynne Robinson’s Home, an homage to the parable of the prodigal son, and a companion to Gilead.

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