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“... in the glow of it.’ The life and writings of Flannery O’Connor offer a piquant contrast to Brad Gooch’s previous biographical subject, the poet Frank O’Hara – though both came from Catholic families of Irish origin. O’Connor disliked cities, and boasted to a friend of a spell in Manhattan: ‘I didn’t see much of the city when I stayed ...”

“... de Nagy Editions, her The Location of Things (1960) and his A City Winter and Other Poems (1951). Brad Gooch, in his biography of O’Hara, describes Guest, O’Hara and the painter Grace Hartigan and her husband meeting up in Paris in 1958. After lunch Guest suggested that the group cross the street to explore the ‘bateau lavoir’ where, she ...”

“... with lupus; he died when she was fifteen. O’Connor grew up, according to her biographer Brad Gooch, ‘among a set of older women who were forever slipping on white gloves, and putting on big hats, to go off to chapter meetings of the Daughters of the Confederacy’. In 1939, when she was fourteen and living in a suburb of Atlanta, Victor ...”