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This is the cover of the book Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O Connor & Friends, edited by Benjamin B. Alexander. The book is reviewed by Rachelle Linner. (CNS) Help us expand our reach! Please share this article Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O Connor & Friends, edited by Benjamin B. Alexander. Convergent Books (New York, 2019). 400 pp., $26. This new book of Flannery O Connor s letters will, inevitably, beg comparison with The Habit of Being, the 1979 collection edited by Sally Fitzgerald. One of the pleasures of that book was its length and the leisurely pace that allowed a reader to watch O Connor s development as a writer, a Catholic and a woman living with illness to watch, in other words, her unique vocation taking shape and being lived out. It was informed by Fitzgerald s impeccable scholarship and editorial modesty, her long friendship with O Connor and her knowledge of the literary c ....
by E.M. Reapy Elizabeth Reapy’s Natalie is one of those characters who stays with you long after you’ve finished the book she occupies. If “occupies” is even the right word, given Natalie’s preoccupation with not taking up too much space in the world. Fixated on her body and her tendency to binge at times of stress, she takes the reader on a journey – both literal and metaphorical. As she moves through the world, the book begins to resemble a series of linked short stories more than a novel, but there’s something very fitting about where the chapter breaks tend to fall. The girl we first meet in Bali is very at odds with herself; but by the time she finishes up in Dublin, she is much more comfortable in her own skin, and well able to stand up for herself and articulate her needs and desires. Along the way she meets a host of interesting characters – some interesting, some off-putting – and learns something about herself in the process. Skin is a book to ....