
On What Would’ve Been Her 98th Birthday, Can We Learn Something From Flannery O’ Connor’s Racism?
By Jacqueline Bussie
What if the most astonishing greatness about Flannery O’Connor is not some moral life she lived but the grace her own writing brought into her own airless, privileged box of whiteness? The way grace liberated much of her writing from her own bias, prejudice, and racism?