October 1970
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Articles
False God
Think of the bomb as a deity—“an all-powerful force, capable of both apocalyptic destruction and unlimited creation”—and everything’s all right. Isn’t it?
The Barber
When Flannery O’Connor wrote this story, she was no more than twenty-two and a student at the Writers’ Workshop of the University of Iowa. In 1947 she received her Master of Fine Arts degree there after presenting, in place of a thesis, six stories, including “The Barber,” Of the six, one had been published in 1946 and two others were published in 1948, but none was included by the author in her collections.A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge ( 1965). “The Barber” has never been published. As Miss O’Connor’s literary executor (she died in 1964). I have consented to this publication with a note making dear, as the foregoing facts do. the earliness of the story and its apparent standing in the estimation of the author. —Robert Fitzgerald
The Griffe of the Master
The Lives of the Saints
Nathan Weinstein: The Cheated
Frost Revised
From Boola Boola to Bombs
Shrinklits
Commercials for Revolution
The God Out of the Machinery
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Driver's Seat
David Rees, Among Others
Up Against the Brass
Farewell to the King
The Edwardians
Of Men and Crabs
Inter Ice Age 4
The Miner's Pale Children
The Oxford Companion to Art
The Saddest Story
Rich Man, Poor Man
Belloc: A Biographical Anthology
Hear That Train Blow!
The Supermarket Trap
Play It as It Lays
50 Classic Motion Pictures
The Art of the Japanese Screen
The Winged Cavalier
Black Colleges
The Editors Page
The White House Hard Hats
The Giantess on the Hillside
Soldiers
Korea
The Invisible Nation
