Artist Profile Series 24: Flannery O' Connor

Flannery O’ Connor was a Southern, fiction writer and essayist born March 25th 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. She was a devout Roman Catholic with a penchant for satire, dark humor and wild, religious imagination. Today, O’Connor is considered to be one of America’s greatest fiction writers and an apologist for the Catholic faith.

Her stories are far from what you might imagine coming from a Southern Christian writer in the 1950’s. They are full of shocking scenes of violence, depravity and shady, sometimes comic Christian characters such as a bible salesman who steals a prosthetic leg or a pseudo-prophet who steals mummified dwarfs. Her character’s twisted views of reality warps the basic tenets of the faith they profess. Their situations often end in bloodshed.

Artist Profile Series, authors, Faith and Art, Inspiration, storytelling, TerrorStephen RoachOctober 11, 2019flannery o' connor, fiction author, Artist Profile Series, southern fiction, gothic writer, Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Southern Fiction, Catholic Writer, Women Writers, hazel motes

S 3 E 4: Honesty In Artistry with Josh Riebock

Josh Riebock is the best-selling author of the memoir, Heroes and Monsters and My Generation. He is host of the popular podcast, The Marrow, and a sought-after storyteller and poet at venues around the country for his captivating artistry and honesty.

In this episode, Stephen talks with Josh about cultivating honesty within artistry and how beauty and terror sometimes appear inextricably linked.

Tom Waits, Nirvana, Charles Bukowski, William Shakespeare, Stranger Things and the love and violence within scripture are among the topics of their discussion.

authors, Beauty, Philosophy, Honesty, TerrorStephen RoachNovember 29, 2017Josh Riebock, Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, Stranger Things, William Shakespeare