Motes wants a church without responsibilities, without inner conflict, without struggle, without guilt. Instead of turning to ...

Love” from "Twilight Hours" features contributions from, among others, Max Weinberg, Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell.

O'Connor kept the journal from 1946 to 1947 as a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was 20 when she started composing these prayers, 22 when she quit.

When O’Connor was in her early 20s, studying writing at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, she began jotting down her prayers in a journal.

Since the republication of those newspaper cartoons, in 2012 — and a deeply researched biography in 2009 — an academic scavenger hunt for the true Flannery O’Connor has taken off. Her prayer ...

Written sporadically in 1946, her Prayer Journal offers a glimpse of a young woman unsure and uncertain, whose greatness is still to come. Reading it, one feels as if praying with Flannery O’Connor ...

Ethan Hawke and the Inner Life of Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat Finding the drama of an author who laughed at her own biography By Richard Whittaker, 2:03PM, Wed. May 29, 2024 ...

“No risk, no reward” sounds like a title that Flannery O’Connor might give a short story, in the manner of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” In Wildcat, a new biopic ...

Few people in Flannery O’Connor’s life seem to enjoy her stories—at least according to Wildcat, the new biopic about the acclaimed Southern gothic writer. Her mother wonders why she can’t ...