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A Lagniappe for Readers –“The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes”
For my few stalwart, long-suffering and die-hard literati readers who have been too impecunious to purchase one of my books or stories just yet, here is some news you can use (as you wish). My...
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What a Lady, What a Writer
As I’m sure you know, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year on the basis of a lifetime of writing plain spoken, deeply felt and viscerally moving short stories about the intricacies,...
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Fllannery O’Connor on “The Meaning of a Story”
From THE HABIT OF BEING: THE LETTERS OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR, P.437 [O'Connor was frequently aggravated and frustrated by mis-readings and misunderstandings of her work by people who she felt should know...
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Flannery O’Connor on Writing: You Are Always Bounded by What You Can Make Live …
Here are a few short ones (all I have time for right now, apologies) but they may keep a certain sort thinking, chewing on them, for a while in spite of their brevity– “The sense of place is very...
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“The grandmother did not want to go to Florida.” Flannery O’Connor’s Mastery...
Flannery O’Connor‘s desk and typewriter (c) Copyright 2014, Margaret Langstaff, All Rights Reserved. “The grandmother did not want to go to Florida” is the first line in O’Connor’s short story...
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In Her Own Voice: Flannery O’Connor Reads Aloud A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
This recording will add tremendously to the reader’s understanding of this classic story. Straight from the horse’s mouth, a great author in her own voice tells the story in the way she wanted it to be...
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THE LONG SHADOW: Flannery O’Connor’s Masterful Use of Dread and Foreboding in...
Copyright © 2014 by Margaret Langstaff, All Rights Reserved. THE LONG SHADOW Scholars and critics have poured over O’Connor’s amazing literary achievement in her story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” for...
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“Twilight’s Indian Princess”– a new story
Now Available for Kindle on Amazon.com Sarah Sloan McCorkle of Piney Point, TN is a smart, hard-working schoolteacher, a good wife and great mother, who “married down”—according to her Southern...
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Joyce Carol Oates on Writing – Advice from a Master
[Terrific interview on BuzzFeed with literary icon Joyce Carol Oates about “writing.”] “It’s been 52 years since Joyce Carol Oates published her first book, a short story collection titled By the North...
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