San Antonio College Library

This volume presents a critical study of Flannery O'Connor's stories and novels. The author attempts to situate O'Connor's fiction within a variety of literary contexts -- historical and contemporary -- and to define in general terms the nature of O'Connor's aesthetic and how she responded to the problem of writing for an audience whose fundamental assumptions were likely to be opposed to her own. This work discusses the two novels and selected short...

In today's society, the model citizen is too often one with neither memory nor traditions. Murray Kempton's refusal to relinquish either is among his greatest achievements. He knows that the chaos of daily events can only be understood through the prism of the past. He is a man suffused with a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for the life of the mind. He is that rare reporter whose skepticism has never succumbed to cynicism. The best of Murray Kempton's...