<p>Today's episode focuses on Flannery O'Connor (1925–64), an American writer famed for her 'southern Gothic' style. &nbsp;We will read O'Connor as a Christian realist who portrays the depravity of the human condition with unusual acuity, set as it is in sharp relief against the backdrop of Southern gentility.</p>

Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Nine, Kafka

Paideia Today is a podcast in which Dr. Scott Masson and Dr. Bill Friesen, professors of English, discuss the great works of western literature. We do so from a now largely lost classical perspective, attempting to illustrate why 2800 years of the greatest thinkers valued these works above all others as keys to understanding the human condition.