Friday, October 24, 2008

2 by Flannery O'Connor

How does news travel on the web? Slowly.

Last month, a blog called The Morning Oil posted two little-known audio files featuring novelist Flannery O'Connor. The first is a lecture on the grotesque in Southern fiction. The second is the author reading what is probably her best-known short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

And there they sat until web audio scavenger Large Hearted Boy found them. Next minnesotareads.com discussed them. And that's how I found them. How's that for efficiciency?

Visit TMO's posting to read the entire backstory. The links to the files are at the bottom of the entry.--David E

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