Gosh o my gosh. I have just read this amazing article in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. It is a review of a new biography of short story writer and novelist Flannery O Connor.
The review begins:
'Flannery. She liked to drink Coca-Cola mixed with coffee. She gave her mother, Regina, a mule for Mother’s Day. She went to bed at 9 and said she was always glad to get there. After Kennedy’s assassination she said: “I am sad about the president. But I like the new one.” As a child she sewed outfits for her chickens and wanted to be a cartoonist.'
It is such a good read. It is one of the best written reviews I've ever read, the biography sounds fascinating, and Flannery's life... she sounds like such a crazy, eccentric character.
I've never read any of her writing (shame on me) so her Collected Stories is now top of my list.
Monday, 2 March 2009
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shame on you indeed - start with 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'.
I hang my head in shame. I haven't read any of her writing either. I'm off to read the review now.
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