Flannery O’Connor Book Club
Sponsored by the Andalusia Institute, Georgia Writers Museum, and Allied Arts of Milledgeville.
Discussion Leader
Dr. Bruce Gentry
Professor of English, Georgia College
Dr. Gentry, Editor of the Flannery O’Connor Review, received GC’s Excellence in Scholarship award in 2013. He is the author of Flannery O’Connor’s Religion of the Grotesque, editor of The Cartoons of Flannery O’Connor at Georgia College, and co-editor of the oral history At Home with Flannery O’Connor. Gentry twice served as co-director for NEH Summer Institutes on O’Connor. Gentry has also hosted four O’Connor conferences in Milledgeville. Other publications by Gentry include Conversations with Raymond Carver and articles on Doctorow, Roth, and Carver in Contemporary Literature, South Atlantic Review, The CEA Critic, and South Carolina Review.
Aug. 15
2:00-3:00 PM, join us for a hybrid (Zoom and in-person) conversation with Dr. Bruce Gentry about A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor.
In-person at Georgia Writers Museum
Oct. 17
2:00-3:00 PM, join us for a hybrid (Zoom and in-person) conversation with Dr. Bruce Gentry about Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress by Jessica Hooten Wilson.
In-person at Georgia Writers Museum
Nov. 21
2:00-3:00 PM, join us for a hybrid (Zoom and in-person) conversation with Dr. Bruce Gentry about The King of the Birds and Amy Alznauer’s The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor by Acree Graham Macam and Natalie Nelson.
In-person at Georgia Writers Museum
Dec. 12
2:00-3:00 PM, join us for a hybrid (Zoom and in-person) conversation with Dr. Bruce Gentry about Dear Regina by Monica Miller.
In-person at Georgia Writers Museum
Past Reads
Spring 2024
Jan. 25 The Habit of Being (1958-59), by Flannery O’Connor
Feb. 15 The Habit of Being (1960), by Flannery O’Connor
Mar. 21 The Habit of Being (1961-62), by Flannery O’Connor
Spring 2023
Jan. 19th A Circle in the Fire, by Flannery O’Connor
Feb. 16th The Life You Save May Be Your Own, by Flannery O’Connor
March 23rd Good Country People, by Flannery O’Connor
April 20th Judgment Day, by Flannery O’Connor
Spring 2022
Jan. 20th The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Feb. 17th In Love and Trouble: “Really, Doesn’t Crime Pay?” and “Strong Horse Tea”, Alice Walker
March 24th A Prayer Journal, Flannery O’Connor
April 21st The Year the Lights Came On, Terry Kay
May 19th Appalachee Red, Raymond Andrews
Fall 2021
Aug. 19th Everday Use, Alice Walker
Sept. 16th The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Oct. 21st Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Nov. 18th Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers
Spring 2021
Jan. 21st A Good Man is Hard to Find
Feb. 18th A View of the Woods
Mar. 18th Greenleaf
April 15th The Comforts of Home
May 20th Everything That Rises Must Converge
Fall 2020
Aug. 20th The River
Sep. 17th The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Oct. 15th A Temple of the Holy Ghost
Nov. 19th A Circle of Fire
In-Person
Sylvia’s Coffee Shop at Georgia Writers is open until 2 pm on book club days. I hope you’ll join us in arriving early to get some coffee and pastries before they close, just prior to our discussion starting.
