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Brad Gooch: Flannery

While we take a mini-tour of Flannery O'Connor's life and writing, biographer Brad Gooch describes his difficulties in gaining access to the author's inner life.

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By Michael Silverblatt • Jul 2, 2009 • 28m Listen

In Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Little, Brown), we take a mini-tour of Flannery O'Connor's life and writing. Biographer Brad Gooch describes his difficulties in gaining access to the author's inner life. Since his last biography was of socially flamboyant poet Frank O'Hara, who would believe that Gooch could handle the religious, retreating, bird-lover Flannery O'Connor.

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    Michael Silverblatt

    host, 'Bookworm'

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    Brad Gooch

    poet, novelist, and biographer

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