A wonderful way to celebrate Flannery O’Connor’s birth and death, is to listen to this very rare and wonderful recording of her reading “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” — one of her best short stories. It is so different from reading this story to yourself, hearing instead her wry, deep Georgia drawl reading her work, and the audience laughing at the funny parts. And with Flannery, it is important to remember that even in the darkest parts of her stories, there is humor as well as violence. It really does change the way one perceives the story.
Sound Cloud Recording of “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.”