tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481184.post3949834858594987883..comments2023-05-31T07:43:43.610-07:00Comments on If Flannery Had A Blog...: Another View of Recent BiographyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481184.post-62875050411985533992009-04-03T11:12:00.000-07:002009-04-03T11:12:00.000-07:00Hello! :)Hello! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481184.post-47983829321127473132009-03-17T14:00:00.000-07:002009-03-17T14:00:00.000-07:00Ralph Wood says it accurately but insufficiently. ...Ralph Wood says it accurately but insufficiently. Gooch's biography succeeds on a superficial "This is Your Life" melodramatic level but falls short on a sustained focus on O'Connor Roman Catholicism as her work's heart-and-soul (no pun intended). Gooch also becomes preoccupied (IMHO) with his inferences about O'Connor's sexuality, and that preoccupation goes beyond simple irrelevance (for discerning readers of O'Connor's works) and becomes some sort of a personal obsession of Gooch (as if he cannot be content to leave alone the subject for which there is no useful evidence). When I reviewed Gooch's biography for BookLoons (North America's premier book review site), I bent over backwards to be generous to the author because Gooch's book does serve useful purposes for the general reader (but not the legions of O'Connor scholars). Finally, it is worth saying again that I regret that Gooch missed the mark on such a crucial matter as O'Connor's absolute faith and her commitment to Roman Catholicism (as noted by Wood and by myself above).R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481184.post-65349476347883564392009-03-13T11:38:00.000-07:002009-03-13T11:38:00.000-07:00Great blog. I thought you might be interested in t...Great blog. I thought you might be interested in this close reading of Parker's Back, interpreted as an expression of O'Connor's Catholic vision. It should have been twice as long, but it isn't without a certain thoroughness, I think.<BR/><BR/>http://htmlgiant.com/?p=5417#commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481184.post-86771741856123640532009-03-12T09:35:00.000-07:002009-03-12T09:35:00.000-07:00Thanks for the info Bob. I really need to read Woo...Thanks for the info Bob. I really need to read Wood's book.TShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17118362963139092279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481184.post-86490831841965915102009-03-12T09:24:00.000-07:002009-03-12T09:24:00.000-07:00I just finished reading Gooch’s book and found Ral...I just finished reading Gooch’s book and found Ralph Wood’s comments very appropriate. I think Wood’s book is the best commentary on Flannery’s ideas and the Catholicism that undergirds her work. It seems like Gooch didn’t even take into a count the Habit of Being and other non-fiction work of O’Connors that best explain what she is doing.<BR/>BobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com