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“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel Interviews

“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel

What happens when an iconic author leaves behind an unfinished work? In this insightful interview, Jessica Hooten Wilson dives deep into Flannery O’Connor’s final, incomplete novel. Jessica discusses the challenges of interpreting O’Connor’s work and the “difficult work of digging” into its themes of grace,…
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February 16, 2024
Guest on Englewood Review of Books with Karen Swallow Prior and Jen Pollock Michele InterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews

Guest on Englewood Review of Books with Karen Swallow Prior and Jen Pollock Michele

This episode is all about celebrating and reading great literary works. Jen is joined by first-time guest Jessica Hooten Wilson, as well as repeat guest Karen Swallow Prior, who are both outstanding guides through the world of classic literature. They discuss the value of great…
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January 27, 2023
Totalitarianism and Literature with Michael Matheson Miller on the Moral Imagination Podcast FeaturedInterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews

Totalitarianism and Literature with Michael Matheson Miller on the Moral Imagination Podcast

In this podcast, Michael Matheson Miller and I discuss how both violence and entertainment and distraction are tools of state control. We discuss Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, some of the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of Butterflies about…
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January 27, 2023
Bishop Barron Presents Jessica Hooten Wilson: Conversations at the Crossroads Interviews

Bishop Barron Presents Jessica Hooten Wilson: Conversations at the Crossroads

Watch Bishop Barron and I discuss caring for the soul through human formation. We discuss topics such as the humanities within education, Flannery O’Connor, Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and numerous other aspects of personal and societal development and integration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAK1oybyJBc Follow Bishop Barron here: Bishop Barron…
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July 1, 2021
First Things Podcast Interview by Mark Bauerlein on Incarnational Realism InterviewsPodcast & Radio Interviews

First Things Podcast Interview by Mark Bauerlein on Incarnational Realism

Click here to listen to this podcast episode on the First Things website.   The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Jessica Hooten Wilson discusses Flannery O’Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and her book Giving the Devil His Due.
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February 27, 2020