And the Ass Saw the Angel , the first Nick Cave novel, is an inventive tall tale featuring (and lampooning) religious fanaticism and bizarre dogma. Euchrid Eucrow, despised [ … ]
Category: Literature
Sanctuary – A Faulkner Southern Gothic Classic
“Good God, I can’t publish this. We’d both be in jail.” So said Faulkner’s publisher prior to the 1931 publication of his sensational novel of rape and murder, focusing on [ … ]
Wise Blood and Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor’s haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom Wise Blood. Wise Blood and Flannery O’Connor are both astonishing and haunting; as a first novel Wise Blood is [ … ]