audreyheckburn:“There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and t
audreyheckburn: “There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don’t have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we’ve got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech” -Flannery O'Connor N O V E L S / N O V E L L A S Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Beloved by Toni Morrison A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Light in August by William Faulkner Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy Sanctuary by William Faulkner Sartoris by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor S H O R T S T O R I E S A Good Man Is Hard to Find By Flannery O’Connor A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Flowers by Alice Walker Kneel to the Rising Sun by Erskine Caldwell Mountain Victory by William Faulkner The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty P O E T R Y Southern Gothic by Rickey Laurentiis Playing Dead by Andrew Hudgins -- source link
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