Full archive of the Flannery O'Connor Book Club

Video recordings of our nine 2-hour sessions

The Flannery O’Connor club met on Saturdays in Oct & Nov 2024. We read closely 11 short stories and O’Connor’s debut novel, and learned all about her life.

The Flannery O’Connor Book Club — taught by Northwestern professor of English

Brian Bouldrey

and me — is now available on video recording for everyone who missed it.

The short stories we read included the famous ones like “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Revelation,” as well as some lesser-known masterpieces like “The Displaced Person.”

The image above is inspired by “Greenleaf,” the story about the bull and the old woman.

The illustrator — and club member — Kathryn Rathke created all the portraits of Flannery O’Connor in this post.

To listen to our playlist for this club, click here.

Below is the reading schedule we followed for this class. This reading schedule can be used as your key to the recordings, which are at the bottom of this post.

Watch the recordings

You can watch the 9 classes below. Each is two hours long.

Two-hour long videos are huge files, but you don’t need to download anything to watch these, as they are hosted on Zoom’s website. However, Zoom charges me to store these video files on their site, and it’s a hefty fee. That’s why these recordings are only available to paid subscribers.

Thanks for pitching with your subscription, if you have a paid subscription — you make hosting this video archive possible!

Here are the nine weeks of videos — plus stories and insights about Flannery’s life, and details about each step of her writing career.

Enjoy!