A Good Man Is Hard To Find

If you love Flannery O'Connor's short stories, as I do, you are in for a treat. Click here and then click on the hyperlink "Reading at Vanderbilt, 1959" to listen to a rare audio of Ms. O'Connor reading her most famous story, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," at Vanderbilt University in 1959. "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is an astonishingly story always but never more so than while hearing it read by the author herself - the humor, the absurdity, and the terror are fully apparent, and it is deeply moving. I'm not sure how long this recording has been floating around the web but no matter, it is a tremendous addition to American letters.  Hat tip to Terry Teachout, who heard about it from Maud Newton. Go listen.