Haley Baumeister’s Reviews > Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends > Status Update

“Then I had an 82 year-old cousin… and I was worried about her reading [Wise Blood] too. I thought it’s goin’ to kill her, she’ll have a heart attack or a stroke or somethin’ and I’ll go around with her on my conscience for the rest of my life. But it didn’t do anything to her either except increase her rectitude. She sat right down and wrote me a letter startin’ “I do not like your book…””

“I am making slow headway with [Karl Barth’s Evangelical Theology: An Introduction], although it is not difficult. It is a little wearin’ to read such a good man who thinks that believin’ in the Catholic Church is idolatry.”

“I told the minister I thought every mental institution ought to have a resident writer.”