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Flannery O’Connor Lecture by Jonathan Rogers
by Pete Peterson on March 22, 2012 In Nashville on Friday? Come to Belmont University to be enlightened and amazed. Jonathan Rogers live, one day only. Held in the Massey Business Center, Room 103 @ 10:00am.
Flannery O’Connor and the Terrible Speed of Mercy
Her stories are known for their shocking violence and their seedy, white-trash atmospherics, but Flannery O’Connor led a most devout, well-regulated, and conventional life on a Middle Georgia dairy farm. “Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed,” O’Connor wrote, “if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.” In his lecture, biographer Jonathan Rogers explores the paradoxes of Flannery O’Connor’s life and work, in which grace comes not like a gentle rain, but like a thunderstorm, destroying even as it illuminates.
Jonathan Rogers lives and teaches in Nashville. Besides four novels, he has also published books on C.S. Lewis and St. Patrick. His biography of Flannery O’Connor—The Terrible Speed of Mercy—will be published in June 2012.
A. S. "Pete" Peterson is the author of The Fiddler's Gun and Fiddler's Green. He is also a maker of stinky cheeses, wooden boats, and tasty sandwiches.
8 Comments
426 days ago
Any chance of this being recorded by Belmont?
426 days ago
If there were paid J.R. literature lecture podcasts, I’d buy them. ‘Tempted to drive five hours so I can hear this.
426 days ago
Will look forward to his biography of her. I have tried to read her writings but have a hard time with them. Maybe his biography will help to shed some light for me.
426 days ago
Can’t make it for this one, but I second Jacob’s question… I’d love to hear this lecture.
426 days ago
Hope it is recorded and can’t wait for the Flannery work. Just read Wise Blood for the first time and now I’m hooked.
426 days ago
I’ve read all the short stories. So odd yet so alluring. Hope the lecture gets recorded.
426 days ago
I don’t think this talk is going to be recorded. But we are cooking up a Flannery-related podcast that I think you’ll dig.
425 days ago
as a child visiting grandparents in Milledgeville my mother walked us the few blocks to church for mass in the late fifties/early sixties . . . present with her in the Mystery . . . who knew? It is a comfort to me now as I approach sixty.
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