A Good Man is Hard to Find –
Flannery O'Connor
Buy A Good Man is Hard to Find
Documentary: Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O'Connor (2017, Dir. Bridget Kurt) from Beata Productions
Resources:
Brief biography of Flannery O'Connor from Biography.com
Biography from Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor
excerpts from Flannery O'Connor's Mysteries and Manners: Occassional Prose
Flannery O'Connor on the Elements of Suspense in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
PODCAST: "Episode 71: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor" from The Great Books Podcast
Online Articles:
"A Good Stamp is Hard to Find" by Lawrence Downes for The New York Times
"In Search of Flannery O’Connor" by Lawrence Downes for The New York Times
"The Displaced Person: Reading Flannery O’Connor in the age of Islamophobia" by David Griffith for The Paris Review
"The Promise of Flawed Characters" - Joe Fassler's By Heart series from The Atlantic
"The Passion of Flannery O'Connor" by James Parker for The Atlantic
Critical Articles:
"The Action of Mercy" by Joyce Carol Oates
"Assumption and Experience: Flannery O'Connor's 'A Temple of The Holy Ghost'" - Sally Fitzgerald
"The Body, the Critics, and 'The Artificial Nigger'" - Jeanne Perreault
"The Child in Flannery O'Connor" - Howard R. Burkle
"Deconstructing Racial Difference: O'Connor's 'The Artificial Nigger'" - Doreen Fowler
"Experiencing Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find'" - Douglas Novich Leonard
"A Fairy Tale Made Modern in O’Connor’s 'The Artificial Nigger'" - Margaret Haigler Davis
"Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Master" - Robert Ellsberg
"Flannery O'Connor's Sacramental Icon: 'The Artificial Nigger'" - W. F. Monroe
"Ironic Dimension in Flannery O'Connor's 'The Artificial Nigger'" - Turner F. Byrd
"The Moment of Grace in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor" - Bob Dowell
"A Patriotic Deus ex Machina in Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person'" - Randy Boyagoda
"Protagonists and Antagonists in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor" - William M. Burke
"Secular Meaning in 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'" - Stanley Renner
"The Shifting of Mr. Shiftlet: Flannery O'Connor's 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own'" - John F. Desmond
"Stalking Joy: Flannery O'Connor and the Dangerous Quest" - John F. Desmond
"What Counts: Social Drama and Connectedness in Flannery O'Connor's 'The River' and 'Revelation'" - Irene Visser