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the Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Traviso with Saskia Hamilton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 312. In this letter, Lowell expresses disappointment that their nomination of O’Connor for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters was unsuccessful that year. Among those admitted were Richard Eberhart, Harry Levin, and Willem de Kooning.

317 “I sit all day”: FOC to Maryat Lee, July 5, 1959, HB, 339.

317 “Does it have symbolisms”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 25, 1959, CW, 1101–102.

318 “the best thing I’ve read”: FOC to Caroline Gordon, May 10, 1959, HB, 332.

318 “I was not ABOUT”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 31, 1959, Emory.

318 “this is the best stage”: FOC to Maryat Lee, July 5, 1959, HB, 339.

318 “The Comforts of Home”: The story was published in Kenyon Review 22, Fall 1960, and was the fifth story in Everything That Rises Must Converge.

318–319 “It would be fashionable”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 9, 1955, CW, 946.

319 “I was pretty disappointed”: FOC to Robie Macauley, January 2, 1961, GCSU.

319 “unaware of the strangely sexual”: Betty Hester to Greg Johnson, November 20 [1996], private collection.

319 “revulsion at the frankly sexual”: Spivey, Flannery O’Connor, 31.

319 “pious slop”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 30, 1960, HB, 394.

319 “Mr. Truman Capote”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 8, 1955, CW, 973.

319 “As for lesbianism”: FOC to Beverly Brunson, September 13, 1954, CW, 925.

320 “The School of Southern Degeneracy”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 19, 1959, HB, 363.

320 “literary white witch”: Orville Prescott, New York Times (February 24, 1960).

320 “strong medicine”: Donald Davidson, “A Prophet Went Forth,” New York Times Book Review (February 28, 1960): 4.

320 “Southern Gothic”: Granville Hicks, “Southern Gothic with a Vengeance,” Saturday Review (February 27, 1960): 18.

320 “a retiring, bookish”: “God-Intoxicated Hillbillies,” Time (February 29, 1960): 118.

320 “having a dirty hand”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, February 26, 1960, CC, 108.

320 “My lupus has no business”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 5, 1960, HB, 380.

320 “Perhaps I have created”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, February 28, 1960, HB, 377.

321 “hard intelligence”: Joan Didion, National Review 8, no. 15 (April 9, 1960): 240.

321 “a young writer”: Vogue, April 1, 1960.

321 “I received Flannery’s new book”: Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, February 15, 1960, Words in the Air, 309.

321 “I hadn’t connected ‘Bishop’”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, February 24, 1960, ibid., 312.

321 “Yes, the Flannery book”: Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, April 22, 1960, ibid., 315.

321 “wave of tenderness”: Maryat Lee, unpublished memoir, private collection.

322 “omnivorous reader”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.

323 “My editor from Farrer”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, May 25, 1959, CW, 1097.

323 “I said I met the Father”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.

323 “a new synthesis”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 22, 1958, CW, 1082.

323–324 “Only crisis theologians”: Ibid., November 8, 1958, CW, 1078.

324 “greatest of the Protestant”: Ibid., 1082.

324 “churchy”: FOC, review of Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece, edited by Gwendolen Greene, Bulletin, June 23, 1956; PG, 21.

324 “total absence”: FOC, review of The Rosary of Our Lady, by Romano Guardini, Bulletin, April 28, 1955; PG, 16.

324 “theology of creativity”: FOC, review of The Image Industries, by William Lynch, S.J., Bulletin, August 8, 1959; PG, 75.

324Painting and Reality: FOC, review of Painting and Reality, by Etienne Gilson, Bulletin, May 3, 1958; PG, 56–57.

324 “Tay-ahr”: FOC, review of The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Bulletin, February 20, 1960; PG, 86–88.

325 “lucky find”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 25, 1959, HB, 367.

325 “giving a new face”: FOC, review of The Divine Milieu, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Bulletin, February 4, 1961; PG, 108.

325 “Pere Teilhard talks”: FOC to Janet McKane, February 25, 1963, CW, 1179.

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