Happy 100th, Flannery O'Connor. I'm fascinated by artists who use the language and themes of religious texts to articulate their own personal struggles with the church—Flannery, Nick Cave, Sinéad O'Connor, and of course James Hetfield. I didn't have anything about Metallica's spirituality in my book proposal, but once I started getting more in-depth with my research (particularly after reading John Van Sloten's The Day Metallica Came to Church) I knew I had to include a chapter about it in my book. Of course I included a Flannery O'Connor quote.
Cake courtesy of Fordham.
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