The Portable Flannery O’Connor
O’Connor’s Collected Works is one of Terry Teachout’s half-dozen super-essential books. (See also.)
O’Connor’s Collected Works is one of Terry Teachout’s half-dozen super-essential books. (See also.)
LOST Magazine is a monthly online publication that aims to “reclaim in writing lost people, places, and things.” In the current issue, Emma Garman remembers Gamel Woolsey (1895-1968), the South Carolina poet and novelist who “was cursed with that shadowy defining quality of the greatest artists: the inability to coax life into satisfying her desires.” Her ambitions for creative (to . . .
Ways, a Lydia Davis story, is among the offerings at The International Literary Quarterly.
Topping J.M. Coetzee’s list of books reviewers should own is The Iliad, which "sets the standard for the narrative of action."
The film rights to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History have passed through at least two hands, and the project seems to have stalled in yet another circle of Hollywood hell for the past few years. Meanwhile, it looks like some Belgian kids with a camcorder have filmed an homage (above) to the novel’s climax and set it to a Sufjan . . .