Jim Shepard’s Teaching Copy of a Flannery O’Connor Classic

You should check out this “BooksbyHeart” tumblr by Joe Fassler, in which “Writers share their dearest literary quotations: lines they’ve committed to memory, taped up by their desks, tattooed on their biceps, triple-starred and underlined.”

Here is a scanned page from Jim Shepard’s teaching copy of “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” According to Joe, “Wow. It’s visually stunning, but if you squint at the notes there’s some great pearls of wisdom about the story.”