Dec 28, 2024
Brad Gooch | Bruce Weber
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Brad Gooch | Bruce Weber
Flannery O’Connor’s bedtime reading: Thomas Aquinas. (Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor)
“The Catholic Church does not dictate to my family what time I go to Mass.”
Flannery O’Connor, age six, puts her foot down.
(Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor)
Mary Flannery O’Connor, born March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. (Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor)
Brad Gooch | Robert Giard
I think for gay guys, at least of that generation, the adolescent spring of first love, the pang often described in short stories, was invariably arrested. I suppose we were still recovering from fifties' childhoods in a repressive society, where there was no such thing as 'gay' or 'coming out.' Most of us experienced our first love in our mid-twenties, in the seventies. And even though the smell and pitch of fast sex was palpable on every street downtown, so, too, were aching hearts and love-tossed looks. The seventies had a romantic aura because so much first love among grown men.
Brad Gooch from Smash Cuts
Photohistory: Frank O'Hara during World War II
Photohistory: Frank O’Hara during World War II
In City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara (Knopf, 1993), Brad Gooch publishes two photographs of the poet taken on board USS Nicholas, the destroyer on which he served during World War II. I don’t know whether the third photograph below has also made it into the literary record, but in any case I’ve photoshopped it to make it a little clearer.
It comes from the ship’s wartime cruise book,…
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