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wdudley89's review
4.0
An excellent volume for anyone wanting to understand how O'Connor approaches writing, art, and religion. The essays are also plain fun to read. She has a great wit and writes without any pretense. It is so refreshing to encounter such intelligence devoid of jargon or arrogance.
"The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" are especially good.
Despite not being Catholic myself, I have great sympathy for a number of her views, including the presence of grace within nature, and the role of art in revealing the full truth of that which we experience all around us.
"The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" are especially good.
Despite not being Catholic myself, I have great sympathy for a number of her views, including the presence of grace within nature, and the role of art in revealing the full truth of that which we experience all around us.
aphunt_reads's review
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
The King of the Birds
The Fiction Writer & His Country
The Nature and Aim of Fiction
On Her Own Work
The Church and the Fiction Writer
Novelist and Believer
The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South
The Fiction Writer & His Country
The Nature and Aim of Fiction
On Her Own Work
The Church and the Fiction Writer
Novelist and Believer
The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South
woolfsfahan's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent reading for students of literature and theology. O'Connor writes on what literature is, who it's for, and how it relates to God, among other things. You don't have to be religious to get something out of it.
gtonsager's review against another edition
5.0
Wow, what a brilliant woman, what a brilliant book. Seriously the best integration of art and faith I’ve read of yet.
blakehalsey's review
4.0
O'Connor, one of my favorite authors, is necessary reading for any aspiring writer. Some of the articles are a little out of date because they were written more than half a century ago, but the principles are still clear and useful.
jimmypat's review
4.0
A wonderful collection of essays, culminating in the absolutely brilliant "Introduction to a Memoir of Mary Ann." After reading this collection, I need to return to Flannery's novels and re-read them all - I feel that I would have a much deeper understanding of what she was writing about.
patlo's review
4.0
A bit uneven, as many posthumous anthologies can be, but with many, many diamonds amidst a wee bit of dust. Perhaps the best book for inspiring the aspiring writers of fiction that I've yet seen.