Flannery O'Connor Reads "A Good Man"

[Extollager]

http://manasto.tumblr.com/post/107920720/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-by-flannery-oconnor

I've only just come across this audio file.

It should be a rare treat.

 

[jojajihisc]

Nice. I loved the title story and one or two others in the collection but overall I thought it was a disappointment.

 

[D_Davis]

Awesome, thanks for the link. O'Connor is pretty awesome. Probably my second favorite female author after Muriel Spark.

 

[GOLLUM]

Interesting. Thanks for posting Extollager. I love that Southern accent.

Whilst I greatly admire writers of the ilk of Flannery O'Connor (thanks to Extoallger for bringing my attention to this author recently) and Muriel Spark, Joyce Carol Oates is possibly my current favourite female American author...with the earlier period of the 20th Century going to Willa Cather . Angela Carter still remains my favorite UK female writer with A.S. Byatt a close second...at least for the 20th Century and so far into the 21st Century...with Jane Austen my favourite of the earlier writers along with George Eliott (Mary Anne Evans) and Charlotte Bronte. Our greatest Australian female novelist IMO is Christina Stead. Overall though my vote goes to the English author Virgina Woolf. Sorry I know I've gone off topic a bit but I can't seem to help myself sometimes...

 

[Extollager]

Whilst I greatly admire writers of the ilk of Flannery O'Connor (thanks to Extoallger for bringing my attention to this author recently) and Muriel Spark, Joyce Carol Oates is possibly my current favourite female American author...with the earlier period of the 20th Century going to Willa Cather . Angela Carter still remains my favorite UK female writer with A.S. Byatt a close second...at least for the 20th Century and so far into the 21st Century...with Jane Austen my favourite of the earlier writers along with George Eliott (Mary Anne Evans) and Charlotte Bronte. Our greatest Australian female novelist IMO is Christina Stead. Overall though my vote goes to the English author Virgina Woolf. Sorry I know I've gone off topic a bit but I can't seem to help myself sometimes...

Have you read Elizabeth Gaskell? She was the friend of Charlotte Bronte who wrote a superb biography of CB. But Mrs. Gaskell was a good writer of fiction too. If you haven't read her, you might try "Cousin Phillis" as a very fine novella and "The Old Nurse's Tale" as one of the best Victorian ghost stories, and then move on to her last novel, Wives and Daughters....

 

[GOLLUM]

Have you read Elizabeth Gaskell? She was the friend of Charlotte Bronte who wrote a superb biography of CB. But Mrs. Gaskell was a good writer of fiction too. If you haven't read her, you might try "Cousin Phillis" as a very fine novella and "The Old Nurse's Tale" as one of the best Victorian ghost stories, and then move on to her last novel, Wives and Daughters....

Yep absolutely. Gaskell was/is a very fine writer. I have a lovely collection of Gaskell's Gothic Tales in a penguin black classic edn. including 'The Old Nurse's Tale' and can recommend this collection to anyone reading this post...

In her other fiction I similarly have a nice Penguin Black edn. of North and South. I know 'Wives and Daughters' and 'Cranford' are the other two of her most highly rated novels but do you rate 'Wives and Daughters' her best novel? I've not read it myself nor own a copy.