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Flannery O'Connor, Wildcat, and Faith
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Flannery O'Connor, Wildcat, and Faith

Maya Hawke Gets It

Wildcat (2024)

Screenwriters: Ethan Hawke and Shelby Gaines

Director: Ethan Hawke

Starring: Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Steve Zahn, Philip Ettinger


The film Wildcat (2024) delves into the artist’s mind—that artist being a woman in the mid 20th century. A woman who defies convention, suffers from lupus, wrestles with her faith, and writes with a sword.

Check back here for more writing about the film Wildcat, which is available now to stream.

In the meantime, you can listen to this podcast from Rose & McGraw about the triumph of this film in capturing a writer who doesn’t make people happy. We also explore the way Catholicism impacts a worldview and an approach to art and living, and we end by reading a short original script starring Flannery O’Connor in New York City.

Is it tame women who make history, or is it the wildcats?

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