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Reading and Discussing Flannery

Jun.22.2009

Reading and Discussing Flannery

Brad Gooch will be discussing his new book, Flannery, a biography of Flannery O'Connor.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.25.2009

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O''Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O''Connor''s significant friendships--with Robert Lowell,...

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PUBLISHED: May.07.2002

Finding the Boyfriend Within: A Practical Guide for Tapping into Your Own Source of Love, Happiness, and Respect

In the tradition of the perennial bestseller "I’m OK, You’re OK," noted author Brad Gooch offers single and coupled gay men a provocative, sophisticated, and inspirational guide that addresses the big issues of love, romance, and being alone. Part memoir, part self-help, "Finding the Boyfriend Within" is a remarkably practical and helpful guide in the quest for...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.02.2002

Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America

From the author of City Poet, the brilliant biography of Frank O’Hara, now comes a fascinating account of thriving forms of spirituality in what is being called a “post-denominational” age. As the nineties were drawing to a close, Brad Gooch set out on a journey to explore traditional and nontraditional forms of spirituality that took him across America and to India. Gooch’s quest—...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.02.2001

Zombie 00

Meet "Zombie", a strange and wonderful young man growing up in Truckstown, Pennsylvania, whose earliest childhood memory of visiting the "Sacred Voodoo Chamber" (with its beautiful glowing rocks and mysterious mummy) in the nearby Scranton Art Museum leaves him in thrall and begins in him a process of "zombification" that will last a lifetime. Fear and...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.1994

City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara

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Jun.17.2009 - 2:42 pm

Flannery Feathers Her Nest

In an excerpt from the new biography of Flannery O’Connor, the famed author, stricken with illness, returns home and discovers that a good peacock is not hard to find. ...

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Apr.09.2009

Published by The New York Review of Books

OTHER BOOKS DRAWN ON FOR THIS ARTICLE The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 555 pp., $17.00 (paper) Collected Works: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard...

About Brad

Brad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biography of Frank O'Hara, City Poet, as well as other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, he earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and is...

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