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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)In a photograph taken during her first year at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Flannery O'Connor poses on the steps of her graduate student dormitory. At her feet, snow piles in thick drifts, perhaps the first snow the...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Flannery told me to practice writing to develop my writing skills. I wrote stories and essays and all manner of things which I took to her for criticism. She would read, cross out, make comments and often have me do...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Flannery O'Connor's humor is sometimes so effective that its purpose seems almost to divert us from our own. I have in mind, for example, Manley Pointer's telling Mrs. Hopewell that he's "not even from a place, just...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)She was a dame. She was trouble. She was a liar, a murderer, and a thief. She was a 25-cent dime store call girl looking for a bad man on a dark night in a city called Chaos. This is the back story to a tragic love...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)This part of Georgia rolls gently. In Alabama, I'd call this piedmont, though the alleys of tight-packed pine suggest what, in Alabama, we'd call barrens. I don't know what they call this in Georgia or even if they call...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)After I graduated from Washington and Lee University in Virginia, I decided to become a Presbyterian minister like my father. I told my father this over lunch at the Sanford House restaurant, and by dinnertime he had...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)To mark the 60th anniversary of the National Book Awards, the National Book Foundation decided to pit selected past winners of the Award in fiction against one another in a bare-knuckles, no-holds-barred contest....
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)The very first thing Flannery said to me about writing was, "Damn if. I can't teach anyone how to write. You've either got it, or you've not." She went on, "Good writers, like teachers, are born and not made. Even those...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)I drive to Andalusia on a July afternoon, possessed by Flannery O'Connor's voice. Ironic and slow, it trails me west across Georgia from Columbus to Macon, past rotting plantation houses with rusted pickup trucks in the...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)In good fiction, things buried don't remain buried. More precisely than nearly anyone else I've read, Flannery O'Connor knew this, practiced this. It seems to me that she also knew how fate works--that in "A Good Man Is...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)"YOU MIGHT THINK I'M THE CHESTERFIELD GRANNY TRYING TO SELL YOU SOME SMOKES BACK IN THE 1930S, BUT I'M JUST MS. LEORA WATTS, FRIEND OF EVERY STRANGER PASSING THROUGH THE TERMINAL STATION. BUT MOST OF ALL, MOMMA DON'T...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)On February 1, 1953, Flannery O'Connor wrote Sally and Robert Fitzgerald: "I am sending you a subscription to something called the Shenandoah that is put out of Washington and Lee University." She was starting with the...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)At the opening of "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor," in the collection of essays In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker points out that in 1952 she and O'Connor lived "within minutes...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)photographs from ANDALUSIA, THE HOME OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR September 19, 2008 The farmhouse at Andalusia Flannery's bed The crutches Her writing desk Flannery's portrait of Louise Hill Light above...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Letters to Shenandoah editor Thomas Carter, 1953-57. Milledgeville Georgia January 23, 1953 Dear Mr. Carter, Thank you for your letter. I wish I had something to send you in the way of fiction. What Robie...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)It's easy to dismiss American fiction from the 1950s and early 1960s as chronicles from a period of quiescence, or as safe literature that was gathering its strength for the explosion of narrative invention that was to...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)Memory Hill, the Milledgeville cemetery which serves as Mary Flannery O'Connor's last resting place, is as innocuous as her family plot--trimmed lawn, cypresses, live oaks, simple stones and flowers, both natural and...