【Dear Utol (2025): Week 7 Highlights 40】

【Dear Utol (2025): Week 7 Highlights 40】

Flannery O’Connor Reads,Dear Utol (2025): Week 7 Highlights 40 1959

By Sadie Stein

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It wasn’t until Open Culture shared this 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading the title story ofA Good Man Is Hard to Findthat we realized we didn’t know what her voice sounded like. The thirty-four-year-old author’s Georgia accent is pronounced, and she puts over the story with a deadpan panache that brings out its full humor and horror. Truly a treat for a gray day.

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