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 . . .
Jonathan Lethem is in a band with the Silos’ Walter Salas-Humara. First album is out on Bloodshot Records in September. (Via.)
PW enters a rave for Marilynne Robinson’s Home, an homage to the parable of the prodigal son, and a companion to Gilead.
A.S. Byatt watches sports partly because a game is a story where you don’t know the end until it comes.
Speaking of potential libel, I happened upon this clump of flyers in the gutter over the weekend. Instantly I felt sorry for Yisroel [Redacted], alleged “‘noted’ moser!!!” of my neighborhood’s Orthodox community, whose name has now literally been dragged through the mud. Back at home, I discovered that a moser is “a Jew who intends to turn another Jew in . . .