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Her final work was continually revised but never finished. Can we know what she was aiming to achieve?

Maya Hawke stars as famous Southern author Flannery O’Connor in “Wildcat,” a misfire that proves a good biopic is still hard to find.

Ethan Hawke has made a movie as scandalous as one of the writer’s short stories.

James Hart "Hootie" McCown didn't just have an amazing nickname. He was one of Flannery O’Connor’s best friends and spiritual advisors.

The author of some of Southern Gothic’s greatest prose, Flannery O’Connor, was working on a third novel when death took her at age 39. A new book attempts to piece together what she left behind and thus give us a glimpse at what might have been.

Ethan Hawke directs his daughter in Wildcat, about the famed American author writing her first novel.

by E.M. Reapy Elizabeth Reapy’s Natalie is one of those characters who stays with you long after you’ve finished the book she occupies. If “occupies” is even the right word, given Natalie’s preoccupation with not taking up too much space in the world. Fixated on her body and her tendency to binge at times of stress, she takes the reader on a journey – both literal and metaphorical. As she moves through the world, the book begins to resemble a series of linked short stories more th...