OPO: Flannery O'Connor

The Truce With Cliche: I thought 'A Hard Man Is Good To Find' might be a tired phrase, but seeing the original 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find' all over the shop makes its inverse look radiant by comparison.

I love Good Country People so much...but my choice is "Judgement Day."

"Little Tokyo Steak House and Sushi Bar (2601 North Columbia Street; 478-452-8886) serves grilled steak and seafood and impressive sushi, which says as much about the worldliness of little Milledgeville as you need to know. Open for lunch every day but Saturday; dinner every day, for about $60, with sake or wine."

Good sushi: hard to find.

the river

"Parker's Back." It's frightening in a hushed way.

"the river" fucked me up but good, but i gotta go with "good country people."

Just read "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" in Lit. AWESOME.

I'm halfway through the full-on Good Man collection. You should get it, Tape Store. Great shit.

good lord, i just finished the violent bear it away and don't completely know what to make of it. (i haven't read wise blood, just some of the short stories, so this was my deepest immersion in flannery-dom.) it just gets weirder and darker as it goes, and unless i'm reading it wrong i think satan shows up as a gay rapist toward the end? anyway, i think it's really good, but it is sitting uncomfortably in my mind.

"The River" is so awesome

"Good Country People"

we should poll her stories

I love "Good Country People" -- I haven't read it in the longest time, I should definitely read it again soon.

Hey so I liked the Ethan Hawke/Maya Hawke film WILDCAT.

Have any of you heard about it?

Led me to this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/marriage-betrayal-and-the-letters-behind-the-dolphin