Lucinda Williams Gives Up Her Ghosts

In Flannery O’Connor’s essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction“, the novelist reflected on what distinguishes Southern writers and their “penchant for writing about freaks”: “In the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological….it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The Southerner, who isn’t convinced of it, is very much Read More…