The Life of Flannery O’Connor

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Novelist and short story writer Flannery O'Connor is an icon of American literature, but she got her first taste of fame by teaching a chicken to walk backwards. Brad Gooch's biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, takes a detailed look at the writer 45 years after her death.

Event: Brad Gooch will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, March 10, at 7:00 pm
Book Culture
West 112th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam
For more information call 212-865-1588 or visit the Book Culture website.

Brad Gooch will be speaking
Thursday, March 12, at 7:00 pm
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street

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