Charles, Danny, and Heather discuss Flannery O'Connor's short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge" with an eye to O'Connor's role as a between-the-councils Catholic writer, an ear to the story's portrayal of envy and love, and a dash of Hans Urs von Balthasar to taste. External Links:<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flannery-OConnor-Collected-Everything-Converge/dp/0940450372/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1R25HNV5P0L8T&amp;keywords=everything+that+rises+must+converge+by+flannery+o%27connor&amp;qid=1668020544&amp;sprefix=everything+that+rises%2Caps%2C310&amp;sr=8-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=184&amp;v=bMrveIu0DdE&amp;feature=emb_logo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” written and read by Flannery O’Connor</a>

Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"

The Particular Good podcast is focused on literature, theology, and philosophy. Our title is inspired by St. Thomas, who said humans by nature are made for particular goods. Elif Batumann, novelist and literary critic, pictures writers as bookkeepers keeping a double-ledger of life and literature, looking at people and objects in life and on pages and saying: what is it? On the Particular Good podcast, our goal is take out the ledger, pay attention, and pursue truth in its particular good.