One of Barry's six favorite books, as shared with The Week magazine:Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'ConnorRead about the other entries on the list.
I risk the wrath of O'Connorians everywhere when I suggest that there's a particular time in life when her short stories have the most charge or reverb, and it's in one's late teens or early 20s. That was when I read this collection, and I was awed by the dense emotional humidity of the world it depicted.
Everything That Rises Must Converge is one of four books that changed David Vann.
--Marshal Zeringue
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