Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University and someone with great taste in books: look at her YouTube channel and you’ll find her speaking about Chesterton, Lewis, Dostoevsky, and Flannery O’Connor.  She also has a terrific Substack, The Scandal of Reading.

Earlier this year, I read her edited version of O’Connor’s unfinished novel, Why Do the Heathen Rage? and was struck by how much I missed O’Connor’s voice and how grateful I was that somebody assembled these drafts into a book.  I interviewed Jessica on the New Books Network and am glad to say that she is the first guest on the Pages and Frames podcast.  We talked about Wildcat, Ethan Hawke’s film about O’Connor’s life and work.  Thank you, Jessica!  

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