Flannery O’Connor was one of the greatest short-story writers of the 20th century. In spite of her burning need to be published, it seems obvious she never intended for “A Prayer Journal” to be ...

A review of A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor. In 1945, at age nineteen, Flannery O’Connor left her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, to study journalism on scholarship at the University of Iowa.

How should one pray? Not even the Psalmists or the disciples knew the answer. The Psalms are filled with pleas for God to place words on the tongues of believers; the disciples were even so bold as to ...

Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor is seen in a Sept. 22, 1959, photo, sitting on the steps of her home in Milledgeville, Ga. Elizabeth Coffman, an associate professor of film and digital media at ...

Flannery O'Connor, edited by W. A. Sessions. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $18 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-23691-5 At age 20, Catholic writer O'Connor moved from Georgia to Iowa City to enroll in graduate ...

A woman holds a rosary during the Pope Francis’s Mass opening the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) What strikes me most about ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Karena Tse compiled this month’s selections. “I keep ...