Tag Archives: Flannery O’Connor

Twitter to Campaign Outsider: No Blue Check For You!

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

No man with a good car needs to be justified. – Hazel Motes in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood So the other night the hardhoping staff tried to get our Twitter account verified. According to Twitter’s Help Center, an account must be “notable and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC News, blue check, Flannery O'Connor, Hazel Motes, Help Center, Radio Boston, Twitter, WBUR, Wise Blood | Leave a comment

Slate’s ‘Hang Up and Listen’ Totally Lacks 20-20 Heinz Sight

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff yields to no man in our admiration and respect for Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin, hosts of the excellent Hang Up and Listen podcast. But we feel compelled to take issue with last week’s edition in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!”, Bill Littlefield, David Halberstam, Eddie Arcaro, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Hang Up and Listen, John Swansburg, Josh Levin, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Kram Jr., New Journalism, New York Times, Pete Reiser, Slate, Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, The Man They Padded the Walls For, The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz, Tom Wolfe, W.C. Heinz, William Faulkner | 2 Comments

Shut Up: Ring Lardner Explained

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

From the first time I read a Ring Lardner short story (“Haircut,” I believe, like a billion other American high schoolers), I’ve been a huge fan of his work. So much so that back in the ’70s and ’80s I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A World's Serious, A.J. Liebling, Andrew Ferguson, Dave Barry, Donald Barthelme, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, George Saunders, Haircut, James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, Li’l Abner, Own Your Own Home, Pogo, Ring Lardner, Ron Rapoport, The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner, The Portable Ring Lardner, The Savvy Rube, The Weekly Standard, The Young Immigrunts | 3 Comments

Boston Herald Readers Have Unsuspected Depth

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From Monday’s Boston Herald Letters to the Editor: Eagan panned Margery Eagan reminds me of that character in Flannery O’Connor’s “Wise Blood,” an angry apostate hell-bent on starting a new church (“A hard pill for bishops to swallow,” Feb. 9). … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Connolly, Boston Herald, Cary Grant, contraceptives, Flannery O'Connor, Hazel Motes, James Stewart, Margery Eagan, The Philadelphia Story, unsuspected depth, Wise Blood | 1 Comment

If You Ever Plan To Motor West

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I took a spin out to the Berkshires to examine the artwork currently on view there and this is what we saw: • The Clark’s landmark exhibit “Picasso Looks at Degas,” which brilliantly traces the lines … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio, Le Corbusier, MASS MoCA, Petah Coyne, Picasso Looks at Degas, The Clark, Walter Gropius | 2 Comments

Southern F(r)iction

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Novelist Elizabeth Spencer has the Wall Street Journal’s Five Best feature this week, subheadlined: Elizabeth Spencer chooses her favorite works of Southern fiction Problem is, none of them were written by Flannery O’Connor. Look – somebody’s favorites are somebody’s favorites. But … Continue reading →

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