Volume 1 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“’A Feeling for the Vulgar’: The Influence of Flannery O’Connor on the Pennyroyal
Caxton Bible” by Barry Moser
“Southern Spiritual Spaces: Landscapes in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear
Away and Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins” by Sarah Petrides
“The Hubris of the Sacred Self: Evocations of the Tragic in the Christian Vision of
Flannery O’Connor” by Wendy Piper
“Preface to the Paintings” and Four Painting by Nancy Jay
“Evangelical Fervor, Gothic Horror and Redemption: Reflections of Flannery
O’Connor in Larry Brown’s Fiction” by Jean W. Cash
“Divine Curses in O’Connor’s ‘Revelation’ and 2 Samuel 16” by Brian Britt
“Flannery O’Connor’s Preachers and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogical Understanding of
Truth” by Ralph C. Wood
“Preface to the Photographs” and Photographs by David Payne
“Blinded By Whiteness: Revisiting O’Connor and Race” by Julie Armstrong
“A Hazing of 1950s American Sexuality: O’Connor’s Wise Blood and Nabokov’s
Lolita” by Cody Roy
“Testimony” by Richard Polson
“Flannery O’Connor and the Tragedy of the South” by Douglas Robillard, Jr.
“A Teacher’s Forum: O’Connor and the Issue of Race” by Laura M. Zaidman,
Margaret Whitt, Jane Vogel
“News from Russell Library and the O’Connor Collection at GC&SU” by Nancy Bray
“The ‘Preemie’ Issue” Cartoons by Josephine King
Review of Sarah Gordon’s Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination by Minrose
Gwin
Review of Cynthia Seel’s Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor by
Sarah Gordon
Review of Katherine Hempel Prown’s Revising Flannery O’Connor: Southern Literary
Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship by Gary Ciuba
Volume 2 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“Is Flannery O’Connor a Catholic?” by Mary Gordon
“From Agrarian Homestead to Literary Landscape: A Brief History of Flannery
O’Connor’s Andalusia” by Craig R. Amason
“Subject of Limitations: O’Connor’s Fiction and the South’s Shifting Populations” by
Robert Donahoo
“Writing and Rewriting Race: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Geranium’ and ‘Judgment
Day’” by Doreen Fowler
“O’Connor and the Mystics: St. Catherine of Genoa’s Purgatorial Vision in
‘Revelation’” by Susan Srigley
“The Female Misfit: The Enduring Legacy of Flannery O’Connor’s Ruby Hill and
JoAllen Bradham’s Genie Putnam” by Joy A. Farmer
“‘Wingless Chickens’: ‘Good Country People’ and the Seduction of Nihilism” by
Henry T. Edmondson III
“‘Been Believing in Nothing!’: Flannery O’Connor Read Simone de Beauvoir” by
Thomas L. Cooksey
“Creative Responses to O’Connor’s Wise Blood: Those Shoes Aren’t Mine, the Eyes
That Matter, and Maude with the Cow Dressed like a Housewife!” by Margaret
Whitt
“O’Connor for a New Century: Cartoon” by Josephine Keese King
The Poems of Angels in Trajectory
Introduction by Richard Greene
Unholy Sonnet by Mark Jarman
The Final Soliloquy of Miss Mary Grace by Paul Mariani
Ventriloquy by Sarah Gordon
Mr. Paradise by Richard Greene
Review of Jean W. Cash’s Flannery O’Connor: A Life by Bes Stark Spangler
Review of R. Neil Scott’s Flannery O’Connor: An Annotated Reference Guide to
Criticism and Postmarked Milledgeville: A Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s
Correspondence in Libraries and Archives by Jean W. Cash
Review of Paul Elie’s The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by
Sarah Gordon
Review of Henry T. Edmondson III’s Return to Goo and Evil: Flannery O’Connor’s
Response to Nihilism by John R. May
Review of After O’Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia by Wes Berry
Review of Karl-Heinz Westrarp’s Precision and Depth in Flannery O’Connor’s Short
Stories by Gary M. Ciuba
Review of Donald E. Hardy’s Narrating Knowledge in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction by
Dianne Bunch
Review of Flannery O’Connor: Spiritual Writings and Timothy P. Caron’s Struggles
Over the Word: Race and Religion in O’Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright by
Marshall Bruce Gentry
Review of South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture by Robert Donahoo
Review of Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women’s Writing by
Teresa Caruso
Review of Readings on Flannery O’Connor by Teresa Caruso
Volume 3 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“The Dirt at Andalusia” by Bret Lott
“The City Reconsidered: Problems and Possibilities of Urban Community in ‘A Stroke of
Good Fortune” and “The Artificial Nigger’” by Thomas F. Haddox
“The Good Guide: A Final Conversation with Sally Fitzgerald” by Rosemary Magee and
Emily Wright
“Introduction” by Rosemary Magee and Emily Wright
“Habits of Being: The Life and Work of Sally Fitzgerald” by Rosemary Magee and
Emily Wright
”The Action of Grace: Sally Fitzgerald on Flannery O’Connor” by Rosemary Magee
and Emily Wright
“Selected Bibliography of Writings by Sally Fitzgerald” by Rosemary Magee and Emily
Wright
“Simulation and the Authentic Self: Issues of Identity in Works by Flannery O’Connor
and Mary Gordon” by Diane Prenatt
“GSCW in the 1940s: Mary Flannery Was There Too” by Helen Matthews Lewis
“Introduction” by Helen Matthews Lewis
“Part I: GSCW in the 1940s: Tradition and Change” by Helen Matthews Lewis
“Part II: Mary Flannery at GCSW” by Helen Matthews Lewis
“1963, a Pivotal Year: Flannery O’Connor and the Civil Rights Movement” by Margaret
Earley Whitt
“A Promising Future: Flannery O’Connor in Spain” by GRETCHEN DOBROTT
“From Where It Is to Where It Ain’t: Illustration as an Act of Vision Three Engravings”
by Barry Moser
“News from the Writer’s Country: An Andalusia Update” by Craig R. Amason
Photographs Of Andalusia by Sean Carnahan, D. Michael Nifong, Roger Pfingston,
and Stephanie Raines
“Hollywood Does O’Connor” Cartoons by Josephine Keese King
Review of Ralph C. Wood’s Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Sarah
Gordon
Review of “On the Subject of the Feminist Business”: Re-reading Flannery O’Connor by
Sheila Coghill
Review of Farrell O’Gorman’s Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy,
and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction by Gary M. Ciuba
Review of George A. Kilcourse’s Flannery O’Connor’s Religious Imagination: A World
with Everything Off Balance and L. Lamar Nisly’s Impossible to Say: Representing
Religious Mystery in Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and O’Connor by Marshall
Bruce Gentry
Review of Jeffery J. Folks’s In a Time of Disorder: Form and Meaning in Southern
Fiction from Poe to O’Connor by John D. Cox
“Signs of O’Connor” by Margaret Earley Whitt
“Welcome to O’Connor and Other Georgia Writers” Cartoon by Josephine Keese King
Volume 4 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
Special Feature: “Flannery O’Connor and the Religious Dimension in Latino/a Fiction”
by Bridget Kevane, Guest Editor
Introduction by Bridget Kevane
“Viramontes on O’Connor” by Bridget Kevane and Helena María Viramontes
“’Someone to Shoot Her Every Minute of Her Life’: Maternity and Violent Death in
Helena María Viramontes and Flannery O’Connor” by Avis Hewitt
“A Twenty-First Century Writer: Richard Rodriguez on Flannery O’Connor” by Farrell
O’Gorman and Richard Rodriguez
“White, Black, and Brown: Reading O’Connor After Richard Rodriguez” by Farrell
O’Gorman
“El Sur, Once Again: A Response” by Héctor Calderón
“An Unconscious Obsession: The Influence of Flannery O’Connor’s Novels on Joyce
Carol Oates’s ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” by Brian Sutton
“In the Land of Onion Sets: A Poet Pays Tribute to the Influence of Flannery O’Connor”
by Jo McDougall
”The Necessity of Disability in ‘Good Country People’ and ‘The Lame Shall Enter
First’” by Laura L. Behling
“Taking It to the Streets: Flannery O’Connor, Prophecy, and the Civil Rights Movement”
by Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
”Gender-Bending Innuendo and Mystical Theology in O’Connor’s Wise Blood” by Scott
Daniel
“’On Earth as in Heaven’: The Potential, Peril, and Paradox of Community in Flannery
O’Connor’s ‘The Live You Save May Be Your Own’” by Rebecca S. Karnes
“Two Memoires of the Greene Street House” by Frances Florencourt
“An O’Connor Redemption in Tommy Lee Jones’s The Three Burials of Melquiades
Estrada” by Margaret Earley Whitt
Review of Susan Srigley’s Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Art by W. A. Sessions
Review of Christina Bieber Lake’s The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor by
Ralph C. Wood
Review of The Critical Response to Flannery O’Connor by Carla L. Verderame
Review of Melissa Simpson’s Flannery O’Connor: A Biography by Virginia Wray
Review of Writers of the American South: Their Literary Landscapes, by Hugh Howard
with photographs by Roger Straus III, and American Writers at Home, by J. D.
McClatchy with photographs by Erica Lennard by Marshall Bruce Gentry
Review of Robert Jackson’s Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture:
Modernity, Dissidence, and Innovation by Jane Atteridge Rose
Review of David Castronovo’s Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That
Made American Culture by Robert Donahoo
Review of John F. Desmond’s Walker Percy’s Search for Community by Doreen Fowler
Tourism at Andalusia: A Cartoon by Josephine Keese King
Volume 5 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“A Social Scientist’s Appreciation for O’Connor” by Rebecca Lemov
“’A good man is hard to find’: The Proverb” by Charles Clay Doyle
“Thirteenth-Century Lady” by Brad Gooch
“Flannery O’Connor and Lillian Smith: A Missed Opportunity?” by Virginia Wray
“Erik Langkjaer: The One Flannery ‘Used to Go With’” by Mark Bosco, S.J.
“The Echoing Afterlife of Clichés in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’”
by Carole K. Harris
Four Cartoons by Josephine Keese King
“Larger than Life: An Introduction to the Work of Betty Bivins Edwards”
by Sarah Gordon
Artwork by Betty Bivins Edwards
Photographs from the O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah by Jane Thimme
“Two Natures: Chalcedon and Coming-of-Age in O’Connor’s ‘A Temple of the Holy
Ghost’” by John D. Sykes, Jr.
“Reading Through Spectacle(s): Flannery O’Conner and the Politics of Drag” by
Cynthia Barounis
“’That ain’t anything but a way to say something’: Apophatic Unsaying in Wise Blood”
by Denise Fidia
“’From the Blood of Abel to His Own’: Intersubjectivity and Salvation in Flannery
O’Connor’s The Violent Bear Away by Jason Ambrosia
“Embedded Narration in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction and Letters” What’s the
Point?” by Donald E. Hardy
“Understanding a Literary Complicity—José Jimenéz Lozano and Flannery
O’Connor: A conversation with José Jimenéz Lozano” by Guadalupe Arbona and
José Jimenéz Lozano (with translation by Victoria Howell)
Review of Flannery O’Connor’s Un encuentro tardio con el enemigo
Prologue-Interview by Guadalupe Arbona and José Jimenéz Lozano
Translation and Notes by Gretchen Dobrott
by Henry T. Edmondson III
Review of Flannery O’Connor’s Radical Reality and Madison Jones’ Garden of
Innocence by James H. Watkins
Review of John V. McDermott’s Flannery O’Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant: Two of
a Kind by Lamar L. Nisley
Review of Kim Paffenroth’s The heart Set Free: Sin and Redemption in the Gospels,
Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O’Connor by Susan Srigley
Review of Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary by Tim Caron
Review of David Griffith’s A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America
by Marshall Bruce Gentry
Volume 6 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“’Slapstick, Two-Dollared Up’: Thinking about Flannery O’Connor and W.C. Fields”
by Laura Saunders
“The Ghost of Flannery O’Connor in the Songs of Bruce Springsteen” by Irwin Streight
“The ‘All-Demanding Eyes’: Following the Old Testament and New Testament Allusions
in Flannery O’Connor’s “Parker’s Back’” by Jordan Cofer
“Head to Toe” Deliberate Dressing and Accentuated Accessories in Flannery O’Connor’s
‘Revelation,’ ‘A Late Encounter with the Enemy,’ and ‘Everything That Rises Must
Converge’” by Leanne E. Smith
Special Feature: “Intersections: Race and Gender Ideologies, Flannery O’Connor and
Alice Walker” by Beauty Bragg, Guest Editor
Introduction by Beauty Bragg
“Beyond the Peacock: Psychosexual Symbolism in Flannery O’Connor and Alice
Walker’s Southern Landscape” by Nagueyalti Warren
“Colored Man: The Ambiguous White Male Body in ‘Parker’s Back’”
by Charles Andrews
“Not Deferential to White People: Alice Walker, Flannery O’Connor, and the Art of
Biography” by Evelyn C. White
“’Nervous Shadow Walking Backwards’: Elusive Desire in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise
Blood” by Michael Sean Bolton
“Making It in Darkness” by Richard Giannone
“A ‘World with Devils Filled’: The Hawkes-O’Connor Debate Revisited
by J. Ramsey Michaels
“By Force of Will: Flannery O’Connor, the Broken Synthesis and the Problem with
Rayber” by John F Desmond
“When Did Mark Twain Become a Southern Writer and What Do We Read by Him
Today?” by Jan Norby Gretlund
Review of Inside the Church of Flannery O’Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the
Sacred in Her Fiction by John D. Sykes, Jr.
Review of Donald E Hardy’s The Body in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction: Computational
Technique and Linguistic Voice” by Carmen L. Comeaux
Review of Marion Montgomery’s Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O’Connor, St. Thomas and
the Limits of Art” by Ralph C. Wood
Review of Michael Dunne’s Calvinist Humor in American Literature and Kerry
McSweeney’s The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse” Chekhov to Carver
by Marshall Bruce Gentry
Review of Thomas F. Haddox’s Fears and Fascination: Representing Catholicism in the
American South by Steven Watkins
Review of Susan Lindsey’s Yesterplace: Blue Jeans and Pantaloons in Post World War
II Georgia by Robert Donahoo
Cartoons by Josephine Keese King
Volume 7 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“A Writer Dreaming in the Scholars’ House” by Barbara Zimmerman Bogue
“’Our Conversations Were In Script’: Miller Williams on Visiting Flannery O’Connor
at Andalusia” by Miller Williams with Marshall Bruce Gentry and Alice Friman
“Grace in the Machine: Technology and Transfiguration in Flannery O’Connor’s
Short Fiction” by Doug Davis
“Six Illustrations of ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find’” by Dan Brawner
“Joe Gould, Daddy Hall and Lady Olga: The New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell and
Flannery O’Connor” by Sarah Gordon
“A Tribute to Horton Foote, 1916-2009” by Robert Donahoo
“Ruby Hill and the Five Evangelists: The Incarnation of Obfuscation of Sex, Lies, and
Virtual Rape” by Joy A Farmer
“The Mystery of Children’s Suffering in Wise Blood and A Memoir of Mary Ann”
by Douglas Robillard, Jr.
Special Feature: “Penance, Violence, and the Ending of Wise Blood: Three Essays in
Conversation” by Susan Srigley, Guest Editor
“’If Jesus Existed I Wouldn’t Be Clean’: Self-Torture in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise
Blood” by Brian Ingraffia
“Hazel Motes as Flesh-Mortifying Saint in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood”
by Ralph C. Wood
“Penance and Love in Wise Blood: Seeing Redemption?” by Susan Srigley
Review of Flannery O’Connor’s Misterio y Maneras: Prosa Occasional Translation and
Notes by Esther Navio Castellano by Henry T. Edmuondson III
Review of Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Evelyn C. White
Review of Sarah Gordon’s A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia by
Roberta Fernández
Review of John D. Sykes, Jr.’s Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of
Revelation by Jan Nordby Gretland
Review of Gary M. Ciuba’s Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction:
Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
by Sarah Gordon
Review of The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor by Vince Brewton
Review of Charles R Embry’s The Philosopher and the Storyteller: Eric Voeglin and
Twentieth Century Literature by John F. Desmond
Review of Lee Ramsey, Jr.’s Preachers and Misfits, Profits and Thieves: The Minister in
Southern Fiction by Marshall Bruce Gentry
Cartoons: Highlights from “Total O’Connor Immersion Therapy”
by Josephine Keese King
Volume 8 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
Special Feature: “The Stories of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner”
by Timothy P. Caron, Guest Editor
Introduction by Timothy P Caron
“Escapes and Diversions, Whoring and Trash: Two Case Studies in the Aesthetics,
Psychology and Economics of the Twentieth-Century American Short Story”
by Jay Watson
“Portrait of the Artist: O’Connor’s ‘The Enduring Chill’ and Faulkner’s ‘Elmer’”
by John D. Sykes. Jr.
“Constructing Black Sons: William Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’ and Flannery
O’Connor’s ‘The Artificial Nigger’” by Jennie J. Joiner
“A Fairy Tale Made Modern in O’Connor’s ‘The Artificial Nigger’”
by Margaret Haigler Davis
“Keeping Our Mouths Shut: A Poet Under the Influence” by Andrea Hollander Budy
“Flannery O’Connor in Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘The Bingo Master’”
by Carolyn Michaels Kerr
“Surprising Legacy: Latter Day Notes from Betty Hester” by Janice Townley Moore
“Back to Page One in ‘Parker’s Back’: An Orthodox Examination of O’Connor’s Last
Story” by Jacqueline A. Zubeck
“Demonic Authority of the Autonomous Self in O’Connor and Dostoevsky”
by Jessica Lynice Hooten
“The Subversive potential of the Abjected Black Maternal Body in Lillian Smith’s
Strange Fruit” by Andrea Powell Wolfe
Forum: Letter to the Editor by Fredrick Asals and Response by Evelyn C White
Review of Flannery O’Conner: The Contemporary Reviews by Sarah Gordon
Review of Steven R. Watkins Flannery O’Connor and Teilhard de Chardin: A Journey
Towards Hope and Understanding About Life by Thomas F. Haddox
Review of Lorraine V Murray’s The Abbess of Andalusia: Flannery O’Connor’s Spiritual
Journey by Mark A. Jurgensen
Review of The Criterion Collection DVD of John Huston’s Wise Blood
by William Walsh
Review of Doing Good, Departing from Evil: Research Findings in the Twenty-First
Century by Joanna Smitherman Trapp
Review of Reflections in a Critical Eye: Essays on Carson McCullers
by Marshall Bruce Gentry
Cartoon by Josephine Keese King
Volume 9 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“O’Connor’s Deep Ecological Vision” by Mark S. Graybill
“Thinking like a Tree: The Land Ethic in O’Connor’s ‘A View of the Woods’” by
Timothy R. Vande Brake
“A Source for E.A.T. in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’” by Marshall Bruce Gentry and
Robert J Wilson, III
“Photographs of Old and Modern Milledgeville” by Bailey Davidson
“Route 441: Signs from Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville” by Carol K. Harris
“Blindness and the Beginning of Vision in ‘Good Country People’” by Elizabeth
Hubbard
“Rashomon in Milledgeville: Flannery O’Connor and Peter Dexter on the Stembridge
Murders” by Douglas Robillard Jr.
“An Interview with Peter Dexter” by Peter Dexter and Douglas Robillard, Jr.
“An Untapped Legacy: Flannery O’Connor’s Ruby in ‘A Stroke of Good Fortune’ and in
the Manuscript of Wise Blood” by Ruth Reiniche
“Flannery O’Connor, John Huston, and Wise Blood: In Search of Taulkinham”
by William Walsh
Photographs from the filming of Wise Blood
“Review of Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism” Essays on Violence and Grace”
by Margaret Earley Whitt
“Review of Michael Kreyling’s The South Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and
History” by Gary M Ciuba
“Review of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 6oth Anniversary
Issue: A Tribute to Flannery O’Connor” by Robert Donahoo
“Review of Christianity and Literature Special Issue: Flannery O’Connor”
by Avis Hewitt
“Review of James Goodwin’s Modern American Grotesque: Literature and
Photography” by Marshall Bruce Gentry
“Cartoons: Film Noir à la O’Connor” by Josephine Keese King
Volume 10 of the Flannery O’Connor Review
featuring
“’To the Hard of Hearing You Shout’: Flannery O’Connor and the Imagination of
Deafness” by Gary M Ciuba
“’Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb’: Flannery O’Connor and the End-Time Scenario
Jon Lance Bacon
“Creating Taulkinham: An Interview” by Chris Lawson, Joe DeCamillis and Shannon
Morris
“Powers and Prophesy: An Interview with Valerie Sayers” by Valarie Sayers and Bryan
A. Giemza
“Desegregation and the Silent Character in O’Connor’s ‘Everything That Rises Must
Converge” by Michael L. Schroeder
“’You Are a Very Ignorant Boy’: Romano Guardini’s Theology of Dogma in ‘The
Enduring Chill’” by Robert Cook
“From the Incarnational to the Grotesque in ‘Revelation,’ ‘Parker’s Back,’ and
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment” by Benjamin Saxton
“Review of L. Lamar Nisly’s Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim
Wayfarers: Construction of Audience and Tone in O’Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy
by Jean W. Cash
“Review of Wendy Piper’s Misfits and Marble Fauns: Religion and Romance in
Hawthorne and O’Connor by Ronald Emerick
“Review of Wise Blood: A Reconsideration” by J. Ramsey Michaels
“Review of Ann Napolitano’s A Good Hard Look” by Sarah Gordon
“Review of Anne Trubek’s A Skeptical Guide to Writers’ Houses”
by Marshall Bruce Gentry and Craig R. Amason
“Cartoons: Better Living Through Chemistry” by Josephine Keese King