Wise Blood and the GMHF collection was my college intro to O'Connor and I was way too young to appreciate what I was assigned. Since then I have read the rest of her fiction and essays. O'Connor is one of a group of writers (Waugh, G.K. Chesterton) who I don't agree with and cannot get enough of! Nice to hear Davis Grubb get a mention. I hear McCarthy has two novels on the way? I hope late McCarthy doesn't read like late Faulkner, aka A Fable.
The Night of the Hunter…jeez Louise…it terrified the child I was at the time & ruined anything with Robert Mitchum in it. I watched it purposefully years later to see if it was as chilling as I remembered. It was.
Recent portuguese follower here! Just want to say I hope I will become as good a reader as you are, I'm delighted by all the book analysis, and the modernist structure you can see in John Barthe's really captivated me. Any chance we might see the whiteboard again anytime in the future? Dissecting structure is such a good exercise!
We'll bring the whiteboard back as a special guest some day. meanwhile, you should be in the International Bathing Alliance, you just give me a location and I put your name on a map. That's all. Wanta join? We need some Portugal reps! s
Flannery is one of my favorites of all time! The actor in the Huston adaptation of Wise Blood Is Brad Doriff and he is brilliant as Hazel Motes. So intense. She was hilarious and wild as hell with her narratives. Thanks for this Scott!
Strange coincidence, I just watched The Night of the Hunter yesterday for the first time! Absolutely amazing movie, with a rather lame-ass ending. Love Fannery O'Connor and Harry Crews...
A film that is now considered a classic. When it was released, it got negative reviews and movie goers hated it. Charles Laughton never directed another film. One of my all-time favorite movies. I think I was about eight the first time I saw it on TV and Robert Mitchum scared the bejesus out of me.
"Born for the Bathtub." Is there any greater honor?
None. The Nobel Prize is for losers.
Wise Blood and the GMHF collection was my college intro to O'Connor and I was way too young to appreciate what I was assigned. Since then I have read the rest of her fiction and essays.
O'Connor is one of a group of writers (Waugh, G.K. Chesterton) who I don't agree with and cannot get enough of!
Nice to hear Davis Grubb get a mention. I hear McCarthy has two novels on the way? I hope late McCarthy doesn't read like late Faulkner, aka A Fable.
Yeah WISE BLOOD is worth rereading now that you don't have to... McCarthy's late stuff so far has avoided that late Faulknerian sag...
Would’ve been appropriate to dress Dodo up as a peacock.
Go St Peter’s! 🥳
Flannery would be rooting for the St Peters Peacocks over the North Carolina Tarheels in tomorrow afternoon's Elite Eight Game.
Dodo has money riding on the Peacocks
Good idea. s
The Night of the Hunter…jeez Louise…it terrified the child I was at the time & ruined anything with Robert Mitchum in it. I watched it purposefully years later to see if it was as chilling as I remembered. It was.
Yeah I know what you mean, but it's also a beautiful movie to watch in a theater... Take care, Bicoastal Lynda!
Recent portuguese follower here! Just want to say I hope I will become as good a reader as you are, I'm delighted by all the book analysis, and the modernist structure you can see in John Barthe's really captivated me. Any chance we might see the whiteboard again anytime in the future? Dissecting structure is such a good exercise!
We'll bring the whiteboard back as a special guest some day. meanwhile, you should be in the International Bathing Alliance, you just give me a location and I put your name on a map. That's all. Wanta join? We need some Portugal reps! s
@@Scottmbradfield count me in representing Lisbon, Portugal!
@@hugurso3566 Great! You were welcomed at our Facebook page, where you can find a link to the newly redrawn map: facebook.com/scott.bradfield.3
Flannery is one of my favorites of all time! The actor in the Huston adaptation of Wise Blood Is Brad Doriff and he is brilliant as Hazel Motes. So intense.
She was hilarious and wild as hell with her narratives. Thanks for this Scott!
Oh yeah, Brad Dourif! I can never remember his name but Hazel Motes was my favorite of his performances! Every time that car shows up it's hilarious.
Video made want to pick up my copy of Wise Blood
Cool, it's a hilarious book... s
Brad Dourif's greatest role.
And how about The Fool Killer by Helen Eustis?
I don't know Eustis. Wasn't there a Fool Killer in that great Steve Gerber run at Man Thing?
@@Scottmbradfield You got me there -- ? --.
Her writing is good but have you seen her pet chicken walking backwards?
And no, but do I want to see a chicken walk backwards? s
@@Scottmbradfield she was famous for teaching her chicken to walk backwards when she was 6 got on tv for it
@@croinkix Had no idea she was so multi-talented... s
Strange coincidence, I just watched The Night of the Hunter yesterday for the first time! Absolutely amazing movie, with a rather lame-ass ending. Love Fannery O'Connor and Harry Crews...
Great movie, possibly even greater book... Grubb was really something, and I need to find my old copies or get some new ones of his various books...
A film that is now considered a classic. When it was released, it got negative reviews and movie goers hated it. Charles Laughton never directed another film. One of my all-time favorite movies. I think I was about eight the first time I saw it on TV and Robert Mitchum scared the bejesus out of me.
@@dennisbento7440 Great movie, and Mitchum was wonderful (as he often was.) The book's great too. s
great video as usual. Have you read any Jim Dodge by any chance?
No I keep hearing good things about him tho...