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“I hope you don’t have any friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you” (Flannery O’Connor)

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From a 1960 letter Flannery O’Connor wrote to her friend Maryat Lee. The letter is collected in The Habit of Being.

Ayn Rand Being a Jerk to a High School Kid

Part of a great write-up at The Paris Review. Some context (from the article):

In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their readers? When this happened, did the authors mind?

“I Don’t Approve of Religion” — Ayn Rand Defends Her Atheism

The Fountainhead in Five Seconds

Atlas Shrugged Gets the Movie Adaptation It Deserves

I almost feel bad for Ayn Rand’s ghost. Almost.