Flannery

LK had the brilliant idea to throw together "courses" for ourselves where we devour the work of favorite writers. Consequently, we will be spending the fall with Flannery O'Connor. Yesterday we talked about things Ms. O'Connor said about writing. "In good stories, the characters are shown through the action and the action is controlled through the characters, and the result of this is meaning that derives from the whole presented experience." and "The basis of any art is truth, both in matter and in mode." Any of you who have read a story by Flannery might agree, even though the circumstances are extraordinary, it's hard to ever say "this story is about that" and "the moral of the story is this" yet you have an experience. And that seems more like real life than some fiction.