The Boss, the Wayfarer, and the Peacock

Listen to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, one of the best acoustic albums ever recorded, and you'll hear the marks of Flannery all over it.  Percy, as it happens, was a Boss fan and actually wrote Springsteen, without response.

Here's an essay from Dappled Things on the Boss and O'Connor: "Naming Sin:  Flannery O'Connor's Mark on Bruce Springsteen."