Cover story …

… Anatomy of a Cover: The Complete Works of Flannery O’Connor. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

O’Connor—and Carson McCullers before her—was a keen practitioner of the Southern grotesque, which she dosed with tales about faith and religion. “Flannery’s characters occupy these dark Southern worlds,” Glasson says. “She vividly portrays the spaces and landscapes her characters occupy. Visually, I think I imagined a dark hazy landscape, not an overly romantic Southern one, but one that is slightly off, faded, decaying, one that I’ve glimpsed on road trips through the South.”