![]() Yes, she made racist statements in her private letters, her novels are full of the n-word, and she once wrote (in a letter) that she didn’t like black people. ![]() ![]() In O’Connor’s case, though, that judgment is not straightforward. Lately, however, as the article from Quillette shown below reports, O’Connor has assumed a bad odor, (Charlotte Allen is a journalist and writer.) Why? For the same reason nearly everyone, including ornithologists, is getting canceled these days: they are deemed racist. Scott Fitzgerald, and her southern confrère Carson McCullers. She’s right up there with Katherine Mansfield, F. After having worked my way through all her short stories and one of her novels, I decided she is indeed among the great anglophone writers of modern times, well worth reading. In June I reported that among the books I pried from the university library before it closed was the collected works of Flannery O’Connor, a writer who’s celebrated but whose work I hadn’t read. ![]()
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