![]() 1960)Īyn Rand Adamantly Defends Her Atheism on The Phil Donahue Show (Circa 1979) ![]() Rare 1959 Audio: Flannery O’Connor Reads ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’įlannery O’Connor Reads ‘Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction’ (c. ![]() ![]() In her book The Romantic Manifesto, Rand put Spillane in some unexpected company when she wrote: “ Hugo gives me the feeling of entering a cathedral–Dostoevsky gives me the feeling of entering a chamber of horrors, but with a powerful guide–Spillane gives me the feeling of listening to a military band in a public park–Tolstoy gives me the feeling of an unsanitary backyard which I do not care to enter.” All of which goes to show that Ayn Rand’s literary taste was no better than her literature. In public, she said that Spillane was underrated. According to his Washington Post obit, “his specialty was tight-fisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers.” Critics, appalled by the sex and violence in his books, dismissed his writing. Mickey Spillane (referenced in O’Connor’s letter) was a hugely popular mystery writer, who sold some 225 million books during his lifetime. O’Connor’s critical appraisal of Ayn Rand’s books is pretty straightforward. ![]()
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