Episode 14: Flannery O'Connor and the hot-water incident

Chris Frizzelle, Hannah Peterson, and Jake Rummel at Basecamp 2 in Belltown for Psychopomp’s group reading “Animal Instinct” on June 16, 2024.

Reading Flannery O’Connor’s short stories in this FrizzLit book club was one of the highlights of our year.

Flannery would have loved that wall of birds in the photo above.

Flannery O’Connor portrait illustration by Kathryn Rathke

Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, was at the Flannery O’Connor dinner party that Frizzelle and Rummel discuss.

Here’s Bacchus:

Thanks to Sylvia and Courtland—and their dog Bacchus—for inviting the Flannery O’Connor book club over for a yummy, drinks-filled dinner party.

Plus, where has the podcast been the last few months?

Why has Jake been reading Freud?

What will FrizzLit book club be reading in 2025? E. M. Forster? Hemingway? Brothers Karamazov? Marguerite Yourcenar? Gertrude Stein?

Also mentioned:

• The Middlemarch book club that

  John Hodgman
  joined us for

• The Jane Eyre book club, and the spoiler Jake learned from looking at Instagram

• Reading Flannery with people who know a lot about the Catholic chuch, like

  Julia Sweeney
  and
  Melissa Wiley
  and
  Elizabeth Aquino

• The care that spiders put into their webs, and why Jake and Hannah leave the porch light on at home, and the worldwide lack of spider therapists

Art and design by Corianton Hale