Flannery O'Conner

Flannery O’Connor, who died on 3 August 1964, was a celebrated but divisive author whose stories are notorious for both their violence and their religiosity. Can her work speak to modern readers, or is it necessarily of her time? Michael Kirwan SJ considers this question, with a little help from James Joyce, René Girard and Quentin Tarantino.

http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/flannery-o%E2%80%99connor%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98sacred-monstrosity%E2%80%99