Flannery After Fifty Years

For the innumerable fans of Flannery O’Conner, Dr. Regis Martin writes eloquently in Crisis:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/flannery-oconnor-fifty-years

And for fans of the interminable discussion of Catholicism in fiction, a friend identifies what she calls “the money quote” from that essay:

“The Catholic novel,” she wrote, “is not necessarily about a Christianized or Catholicized world, but one in which the truth as Christians know it has been used as a light to see the world by.”

Verily.

2014-08-06T02:17:27-05:00

About the Author: Dena Hunt

Dena Hunt's first novel, Treason (Sophia Institute Press), won the IPPY Gold Medal. Her second, The Lion’s Heart (Full Quiver Press), won the Catholic Arts and Letters Achievement award. Jazz & Other Stories, her third book, has just been published by Wiseblood Books. She is the book review editor of St. Austin Review.