Flannery O’Connor Audio
Posted on February 2, 2009 by Tito
Twitter saves the Monday, with this tweet from girlswritenow.
RT @jaycolle: Audio file of Flannery O’Connor reading A Good Man is Hard to Find. Download this gem here: http://tinyurl.com/cdyxhp
Some quick googling found a likely source, that had some more notes. Apparently this reading was recorded off a radio broadcast from Notre Dame not too long before O’Connor died. It’s nice to get a reading of A Good Man… but to me the real find is her talk “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Literature”. The links to both are in WMA, so I converted them to MP3 for all y’all Mac/Linux peeps. Highly recommended.
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[...] thanks to the Black Market Kidneys Blog for converting and uploading the [...]
Wow, these are great, thanks for this!
[...] Rare audio recordings of Flannery O’Connor reading her famous story A Good Man is Hard to Find and giving a little lecture. [...]
Thank You for these!
[...] has written before about Miss O’Connor , and repeated the post a year later. There is a radio broadcast of a Flannery O’Connor lecture. ( The Georgia accent of Miss O’Connor is much commented [...]
[...] In the introduction to Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories her editor Robert Giroux writes of her arrival at the University of Iowa: “At their first meeting in his office, in 1946, Mr. Engle recalls, he was unable to understand a word of Flannery’s native Georgian tongue: ‘Embarrassed, I asked her to write down what she had just said on a pad.’” This sort of thing happened to her quite a bit in Northern literary circles. Which made it all the more amazing when I heard a recording of Flannery’s voice for the first time the other day, two and a half minutes into this interview with her biographer Brad Gooch. Her dialect, though strong, is completely understandable. I often assume that our saturation with recording technology must have a homogenizing effect on our speech, making us all talk the same. It may do that, but it also apparently makes us more used to people who talk different. (Here, btw, are lengthier mp3s of the same two-part speech: “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Literature,” and a reading of her story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find“.) Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor author Brad Gooch, interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on KCRW’s Bookworm. Additional links from Black Market Kidneys [...]
[...] Here she is reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: http://blackmarketkidneys.com/blog/2009/02/02/flannery-oconnor-audio/. [...]
[...] Blackmarketkidneys.com has posted two Flannery O’Connor recordings on its page. One is a reading of “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.The other is a talk titled, “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Literature”. Great stuff. Listen and download here. [...]