Saturday, May 16, 2009
Appendix A: Flannery, Marilynne, GAN
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• Terry Teachout on “Believing in Flannery O’Connor”
• An interesting, secular take on Marilynne Robinson's Home
• Laura Miller wonders, "Why Can't a Woman Write the Great American Novel?"
"it seems that before the 1970s there was nothing more conducive to a woman's literary success than the failure of the men in her life. More often than not, what prompted these writers to sit down at their desks and send out their manuscripts to magazines and book publishers was the bankruptcy, desertion, idleness or death of her husband or father. When the touted sanctuary of the nuclear family let them down, and they needed the money to feed their children and keep a roof over their heads, their talents were finally loosed
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