A raft of correspondence between author Flannery O’Connor and her friend Betty Hester was unsealed last month at Emory University in Georgia, and scholars have been poring over the letters ever since. “Many of the letters to Hester reveal O’Connor’s sharp, quick wit and her passion for religion, philosophy and literature. The two talked extensively about writing and Catholicism — to which Hester converted briefly at O’Connor’s prompting.”