Saw the movie Wildcat (about Flannery O’Connor) this evening. Returned home to find a reference to a wildcat wrestling a prophet on page eight of The Violent Bear it Away, which I bought years ago but still haven’t really read. Finshing up John Irving’s A Widow for one Year. I think I’ll like O’Connor’s book better. Irving taught my dad at the Iowa writers’ workshop. The Irving book, I see why it was a bestseller. I also see why it is probably not a literary masterpiece.