Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson of John Brown University discusses her work and experiences as a teacher and writer. She shares a little about her books and reflects on a couple literary passages she finds especially meaningful.
Read or listen to this interview at the Biola University Center for Christian Thought website. “I’m a Protestant who loves saints,” says Jessica Hooten Wilson. Why do we read and write saints’ lives? Hagiography is a long-practiced depiction of the holy and often wacky stories…
Read or listen to this interview at the Biola University Center for Christian Thought website. “This is where O’Connor scandalizes people. God redeems the moment, so violence doesn’t become nihilism the way it would maybe in a Tarantino film. In her world, God is…
Reading Walker Percy on the Beach by Erin Z. Bass An interview with Jessica Hooten Wilson about her new book Reading Walker Percy’s Novels, a companion guide to the intellectual Southern writer. Louisiana writer Walker Percy considered novels the strongest tool with which to popularize great…
Flannery O’Connor is arguably America’s greatest Christian writer. Why? Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson unpacks her legacy, the way her fiction explores ultimate truth, and how her work is just as insightful and challenging today as it was half a century ago. Dr. Wilson has…
Check out this article by Allen Mendenhall in the Southern Literary Review here. AM: You’ve written three books in quick succession that should appeal to readers of Southern Literary Review. The first involves Flannery O’Connor, and the second and third, Walker Percy. I’d like to start…