6/26/2023 0 Comments Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s an intimacy and rawness here that’s rare even in O’Connor’s outwardly autobiographical pieces, such as “The King of the Birds” and “On Her Own Work.” Written in 19, when O’Connor was in her early twenties, the journal has moments of youthful angst (“My mind is a most insecure thing, not to be depended on”). The manuscript was discovered in the form of a Sterling marble composition notebook among O’Connor’s papers, and is now being published for the first time, complete with its facsimile, which reveals the author’s ovoid handwriting and “innocent” spellings. But the book should also appeal to those who find this writer’s concern with “the action of grace” a puzzling aesthetic curiosity-because the prayer journal is also the journal of a writer scouting her own cosmology and beginning to discern its grand and peculiar design in her art. A Prayer Journal will naturally be embraced by the first group. Flannery O’Connor’s readers either revere her fiction because it’s immersed in the mystery of Christianity or admire the work in spite of this. ![]()
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