June 22nd, 2009 / 6:59 pm
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Tim Gautreaux’s story “Idols” in the latest New Yorker imagines the continued life of Obadiah Elihue, the character from Flannery O’Connor’s story, “Parker’s Back”, which I wrote about here. Good stuff.

5 Comments

  1. June 23rd, 2009 / 12:20 am ravi—

      Like this one a lot.

  2. June 22nd, 2009 / 8:20 pm ravi—

      Like this one a lot.

  3. June 23rd, 2009 / 1:00 am david erlewine—

      this story blew me away. loved it. the scene with him screaming into the phone made me laugh, in the best kind of way.

  4. June 22nd, 2009 / 9:00 pm david erlewine—

      this story blew me away. loved it. the scene with him screaming into the phone made me laugh, in the best kind of way.

  5. July 8th, 2009 / 9:15 pm HTMLGIANT / Thrash Version of Dopesmoker—

      […] of a thing as the original– but it can still be of interest in its own right. (See threads on Flannery O’Connor and Tim Gautreaux and read about Salinger suing people.) Also, after the jump, are the lyrics to […]