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Arthur F. Kinney

Author

Flannery O’Connor and the Art of the Holy

For Dorothy Tuck McFarland Flannery O'Connor was an extraordinary person, an extraordinary thinker and writer—and she knew it. Once a student in Texas asked her why she wrote. She later told John Hawkes her reply: ""because I'm good at it," sa [...]

In Search of Flannery O’Connor

Both students are dog tired when they find me in the outskirts of Atlanta because they have driven, day and night, to deliver the car. We meet to make the last leg of our pilgrimage to the Georgia heartland, to the region Flannery O'Connor used for n [...]