Austin, TX Events

Interested in joining a monthly informal reading/discussion group on Walker Percy here in Austin? For more information, contact David Duty at: daveduty@flash.net. Note: this is a "non-virtual" activity. "Virtual discussion" should be directed to the WP Electronic Discussion Group.

Visit the walker percy table at Flipnotics Coffeespace, 1601 Barton Springs Road! The tabletop presentation was created in celebration of Percy's achievements as a novelist and philosopher with special attention given to his non-fiction work LOST IN THE COSMOS. An introduction to the WALKER PERCY INTERNET PROJECT is also included. Those of you familiar with Flipnotics know the "wacky" coffeeshop to be the perfect place for a celebration of WP's own Thoughtspace and Thought-experiments as present in hisLost in the Cosmos.

The Knopf Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The Knopf Collection houses all of the Percy papers related to Knopf's 1961 publication of The Moviegoer for those interested in seeing original correspondence and more related to this Percy "classic."


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