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Flannery O’Connor
Should I even be telling you to read O’Connor? You know to do that, right? Well, just in case, READ O’CONNOR. The best of her stories—”A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People” and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”—are so dark and twisted and creepy in that Southern-Gothic way, that it’s easy to imagine the flickers of hellfire that O’Connor, good Catholic that she was, most probably felt lapping against the corners of her mind at all times.