A Streetcar Named Sazerac Oct 17, 2009
(Walker Percy once wrote that "the tourist is apt to see more nuns and naked women than he ever saw before" a typically jarring juxtaposition that understandably might be passed off as yet another optical illusion. . (Concierge.com)
A Novel About People Who Are Genetically Immune To Stress Sep 30, 2009
The novel is social satire in the form of literary science fiction, a genre that harks back to Walker Percy and whose ancestors include Swift and Voltaire. We are not in a world of droids on Tatooine but, rather, on a fictive Earth whose technology is a half-step ahead of our own. (Slate)
GOP goes South, all right Aug 7, 2009
The writer Walker Percy liked to poke fun at Ohioans in his novels, just to even things out a bit. "Usually Mississippians and Georgians are getting it from everybody, and Alabamians," he once explained. (Albany Times Union)
Them Dang Southerners Aug 5, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Southern writer Walker Percy liked to poke fun at Ohioans in his novels, just to even things out a bit. "Usually Mississippians and Georgians are getting it from everybody, and Alabamians," he once explained to an interviewer. (Townhall.com)
Becoming Barbarians May 13, 2009
Walker Percy once wrote of the modern novelist s sense that the happy exurb stands both in danger of catastrophe and somehow in need of it. Sometimes, it takes a catastrophe to make us come to ourselves, to see the world in a new and more truthful way. (The American Conservative)
NOONAN: Future USA pared down, more natural, more stable... Apr 18, 2009
To some degree the Wojtowicz story sounded like the future, or the future as a lot of people are hoping it will be: pared down, more natural, more stable, less full of enervating overstimulation, of what Walker Percy called the "trivial magic" of modern times ... Walker Percy again: Bland affluence breeds fundamentalism. (The Drudge Report)
Donald Barthelme: A convincing, admiring portrait of a complex storyteller Mar 21, 2009
He was also the brilliant young editor of the magazine Forum, which he oversaw from 1956 (after he returned from the Korean War) to 1960, publishing original work by figures like Leslie Fiedler, Hugh Kenner, William Carlos Williams, Norman Mailer, Walker Percy and Alain Robbe-Grillet. In 1960 he published Marshall McLuhan's speech "The Medium Is the Message.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Northwest suburbs in 'State of Happiness' Mar 12, 2009
Walker Percy would be very proud indeed. By haha. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Fire laws close off trove of N.C. history Mar 4, 2009
And in the Southern Historical Collection, you can view the writings of Sam Ervin, Walker Percy and even George Washington. Amid all this history, state inspectors last year found a building rife with problems. (News & Observer)
Biographer takes on life of elusive O’Connor - Famed author difficult to pin down Feb 21, 2009
It s not that plenty hasn t been written about her; she has, Gooch tells us, become a one-woman academic industry, subject of countless dissertations and critical studies, as well as one very good group biography, Paul Elie s The Life You Save May Be Your Own, which discusses her through the filter of her Catholicism, along with Thomas Merton, Walker Percy and Dorothy Day. Yet 45 years after her death at 39 from lupus, O Connor resists biographical treatment, because other than her writing, not... (Missoulian, MT)
