‘Wildcat’: New Film About Flannery O’Connor Shows ‘God Can Deliver His Grace in Any Way’
Actress Maya Hawke portrays O’Connor, and her father, Ethan Hawke, directed, co-wrote, and produced the film.
Actress Maya Hawke portrays O’Connor, and her father, Ethan Hawke, directed, co-wrote, and produced the film.
When O’Connor died of lupus in 1964 she left behind a great body of work, including a third novel, still unfinished, titled ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?’
It’s no surprise that so many writers, critics and filmmakers are mining O’Connor’s writings for study and edification.
COMMENTARY: Novelist of grace and grittiness said: ‘I write the way I do because and only because I am a Catholic.’
FILM REVIEW: Classic film’s madman chases two little children across bleak black-and-white landscape.
COMMENTARY: Contemplating what constitutes ‘a good and beautiful work.’
COMMENTARY: ‘How is it that the billions of stars live in such harmony,’ Aquinas asked, ‘when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?’
Both found joy in the lives God had given them.
COMMENTARY: Flannery O’Connor’s Stark Defense of the Eucharist Applies to Baptism Too
By the time of her death in Georgia in 1964, O’Connor had come to express strong support for the civil rights movement and applauded the gains already made in racial relations. Today she’s being accused of racism.
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