Things you need to know about Flannery O’Connor: She died young of Lupus. She was a devout Catholic. She was Southern as hell. She lived with her mother and chose a writer’s life instead of anything personally intimate. So that said, here’s some thoughts of her stories in this collection.   “Everything that Rises Must Converge” Flannery O’Connor is fascinated by the relationship between sons and mothers, especially liberal-minded sons who hold the vulgarities of the world against their poor mothers. In this story, among […]