Flannery O’Connor on Ayn Rand

As an amateur Rand reader and as an O’Connor enthusiast, this got the first laugh of the day:

“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”

{Thanks to First Things}

-Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being