The Complete Stories

I really liked “Greenleaf” and “You Can't be any Poorer than Dead,” and of course “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a classic. But overall, Flannery wasn't quite what I expected. I don't have a problem with her prose; it's stark and blunt, almost like Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy. But most of them have no real ending; if I didn't know better, I'd almost assume that some of them were a typing error and cut off the last few pages.

I got a lot out of Faulkner because I took a class focusing on him; I probably would have had a similar experience of Flannery, but it's a little tough reading solo.

Update: got some help in seeing her vision from Bishop Barron (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAK1oybyJBc), and I'm all in.