I was on Book TV on C-SPAN!

A fascinating--and timely--look at the life of a woman we could all stand to know more about. If you only read one thing today make it this!

We're starting this week in the best way possible Current--with Lucy S. R. Austen's review of Jon M. Sweeney's new memoir of reading, *My Life in Seventeen Books*! currentpub.com/2024/04/29/rev…

. Jessica Hooten Wilson’s “Flannery O’Connor’s Why do the Heathen Rage?” is the most recent effort to bring to the public something new to read by O’Connor.

Jerome C. Foss expands further in his review:
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I have one more lecture to write on Flannery O'Connor for Audible. WHAT FLANNERY O'CONNOR QUESTIONS CAN I ANSWER?

Dear Wipf and Stock family,

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that our dear editor and friend Chris Spinks died Monday night, March 22nd, after a courageous 14-month battle with glioblastoma brain cancer.

It is now impossible to talk of Flannery O'Connor's bibliography without including her unfinished novel. I just saw the updated Wikipedia page, and I'm so happy!

If you want a copy, check out my fav bookstore:
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Next on deck:

Proofs have arrived! Proof of … work, pacing, talking, colleagues, raging, life.

Byung-Chul Han's recent books Vita Contemplativa and The Crisis of Narration make new points, but they also revisit the themes of 2009's Scent of Time. See this insightful video by @dgozli, which anticipates Han's turn to Benjamin in Crisis of Narration.
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“Everything looks good from up here…”

Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim performing “Águas de Março” in 1974.

Mishima just knows how to drag you into a story.

#Myanmar ’s junta re-arrests a prominent Baptist pastor just hours after being freed from prison under an amnesty. #HumanRights #Asia #whatshappeninginmyanmar Human Rights Watch Phil Robertson
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.Criterion Channel should do a collection of films scored by Ennio Morricone