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Flanny, who runs Largo, encouraged me to have musical guests, so I started doing Elliott Smith covers.

Largo at the Coronet “‘City of Nets’ was recommended to me by Flanny, the owner at Largo, where we’ve played.

Largo at the Coronet“‘City of Nets’ was recommended to me by Flanny, the owner at Largo, where we’ve played.

For Flanny, O'Connor's American South is a fictional landscape "as rich in its history and culture as Tolstoy or Flaubert and as fantastic as Tolkien", a place where "the chiaroscuro of Rembrandt meets the folk-surrealism of Thomas Hart Benton, and where the innocence of early Disney cartoons meets the angst and foreboding of Alfred Hitchcock".

As a Southerner himself, Flanny finds her work crucial to understanding the "racial, religious, political and class struggles" of his birthplace.