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Online
O'Connor Resources
About
O'Connor's Writing
Before you
go anywhere else, be sure to stop by the O'Connor
Collection in the Russell Library, at Georgia College. This is THE original
site about O'Connor, and a wonderful resource.
Nancy Marshall photographed
Flannery O'Connor's farm in 2007 and 2008, and she shares her experience in her
Andalusia
Photo Essay.
See interviews with
Ralph Wood, Brad Gooch, and people influenced by O'Connor's work in the PBS Religion
and Ethics Weekly Flannery
O'Connor episode.
The New York Times
offers a very helpful and well-written Flannery
O'Connor topic page that offers chronologically arranged biographical information
put together by Brad Gooch, author of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor.
If
Flannery O'Connor had a blog it might look something like
what TS has put together in this congregation of quotes and links addressing everything
from faith to folly.
No estoy seguro
del numero de mis visitantes hispanoparlantes, pero si usted lo es, este blog
sobre O'Connor contiene comentarios sobre su obra, criticas de estudiosos y
enlaces.
Postmarked
Milledgeville offers a catalogue of Flannery O'Connor's correspondence held
in various libraries and archives. The website provides descriptions of letters
to and from O'Connor and serves as a guide to what can be found, including a description
of broad topics mentioned in the letters.
Study Guides
One of the best
all-around pages I've seen on O'Connor would have to be the Student's
Guide to Flannery O'Connor, a place with reviews, paper topic suggestions, and
even a trip to Milledgeville.
The New York University
Literature,
Arts, and Medicine Database has annotations for some of O'Connor's short fiction,
as well as interesting information on other subjects.
If you need succinct
summaries of O'Connor's fiction (or the work of other major literary figures) stop
by StoryBites.
Looking for story
summaries, photographs, and literary analysis? Then The
Aesthetics of Incongruity has just what you're after. This site is a bit graphics
heavy and takes a minute to load up.
Clubs and
Groups
Care to exchange
messages about O'Connor's work, or chat with other O'Connor fans? Hop on over to
the Flannery
O'Connor Fan Club, and join your fellow O'Connor aficionados.
Thanks to the efforts
of the Flannery O'Connor-Adalusia
Foundation anyone can now visit Andalusia, the farm where O'Connor spent much
of her adult life and wrote most of her stories.
The O'Connor
Childhood Home Foundation has fought to preserve O'Connor's residence in Savannah.
While it's geared toward tourists, the foundation holds regular events such as readings
and lectures.
Audio and
Video
The WMFU
blog has an interesting entry from one of the DJs on his obsession with O'Connor
that includes links to related material including O'Connor short stories read aloud.
By the way, WMFU has a playlist
archive in Real Audio of their program featuring O'Connor giving her lecture
on "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" and reading her short story
"A Good Man is Hard to Find". (I don't know how long this archive will be around,
so if you want future access to the audio, you should save it.)
UbuWeb
contains loads of recorded poetry and fiction, but also includes an interesting
video project called Cinema
of Transgression. If you look about halfway down the page you'll find Jeri Cain
Rossi's adaptation of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" into a short film called "Black
Hearts Bleed Red".
More About
O'Connor Country
Learn more about
Milledgeville, former
capital of Georgia, and Flannery O'Connor's home for much of her life.
Georgia isn't all
peanuts and pick-up trucks. Read up on two of the most peculiar places you'll find
in the Peach State.
Who would have thought
that Georgia had it's own Stonehenge? Maybe it's a little smaller than the one in
Britain, but ours have a name: Guidestones to an Age of
Reason.
Just outside O'Connor's
home town, is a highway sign that points to a Bird of a Different
Feather.
Books!
Looking for good
old-fashioned paper and ink resources on O'Connor? You'll find a list of must-reads
here.
Other Links
of Interest to the Literary Type
San Antonio College
hosts a database of American Women Writers. If you like O'Connor, you owe it to
yourself to check out Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and a host of other talented
writers, and the LitWeb
is a great starting place.
Are you up for some
experimental fiction, avant-garde poetry, and surreal imagery? Yep, you can find
all three at Sein
und Werden.
Todd
Heldt is a poet, and fellow academic. (There's no O'Connor info here, but some
interesting things nonetheless.)
We've discovered Kiva,
a non-profit organization that loans money to the working poor throughout the world.
Saying it's a great idea sounds trite, but we don't see many great ideas these
days. Instead of donating money one time, you get to be a micro-financier. You
can give money to help one person achieve something, he or she pays it back over
time, and then you can give it to someone else all over again.
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