Podcast & Radio Interviews

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.

Listen to this episode on Omny Studio here. Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of English at John Brown University, is currently preparing the unfinished manuscript of Flannery O'Connor's last novel for publication. In this episode, Jonathan and Jessica geek out about Flannery O'Connor, exchange…

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Listen to this podcast episode on CiRCE Institute Podcast Network   In this episode David chats with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, author of Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoesvsky, and the Search for Influence (among other books),about Dostoevsky's gambling problem and the impact that it had on his life…

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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…

Listen to the podcast episode on the National Review.

  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…

Interview about Giving the Devil his Due