Flannery O'Connor's wingless chickens

About two-thirds of the way through Brad Gooch’s highly acclaimed new book, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, I got the gnawing feeling that something was missing—even as I admired Gooch’s storytelling about a brilliant writer of fiction who had once said, “...there won’t be any biographies of me because … lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.” Read more