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Jan.19.2010
Delivered as a Lecture at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, Savannah, GA
Flannery and Facebook: The Impact of O’Connor on my Daily Writing Life
A. Manette Ansay
(This piece was delivered as a talk at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, GA. )
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would...
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About A. Manette
A. Manette Ansay has published six novels, including Good Things I Wish You (2009), forthcoming in paperback this summer (2010.) She is the author of Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book Critics...
A. Manette’s Favorite Books
Recent books that have stayed with me are Bel Canto and Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey and, most recently, The Land of...