June 22nd, 2009 / 6:59 pm
Snippets

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. ravi

      Like this one a lot.

  2. ravi

      Like this one a lot.

  3. 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. 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.

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